Track-It Outdoors Recreation

MINNEAPOLIS -- The call came about 10 that Sunday night. Kimberly Van Tassel, then 30, already had put her two kids, Janelle, 8, and Brandon, 4, to bed. This was on opening weekend of the 1989 Minnesota deer season. Read more

Dr. James Kroll is director of the Institute for White-tailed Deer Management and Research at Stephen F. Austin State. The man known as Dr. Deer has published more than 200 scientific and popular articles and numerous books based on years of... Read more

DULUTH, Minn. -- Maybe you can feel it in the air. Or smell it in the aroma of decaying popple leaves. Or see it in the thick, gray days we've had lately. Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- This time of year, we lose a couple of minutes of daylight each day until the winter solstice. The shortening days signal the coming of fall and a special time of year, the rut. Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- They're slow-footed and bull-headed. When threatened, they huddle up. During breeding season, males charge one another and crack heads with such force the sound can sometimes be heard up to a mile away. Read more

DALLAS -- Opening day is Nov. 7 for most of Texas' 550,000 or so white-tailed deer hunters. By Friday, highways leading out of Dallas will be choked with pickup trucks and SUVs, all loaded with groceries, guns and camouflage clothing, headed north,... Read more

The rundown of boats:

_Mochi Craft Long Range 23, D-E, dock, Bahia Mar Yachting Center, (about $5 million). Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- A little more than a year ago, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials were shooting dead sheep with high-caliber lead bullets, studying to see whether the bullets fragmented upon impact, and how widely any fragments might... Read more

WICHITA, Kan. -- For years, some outdoors experts have said the Internet is a distraction that keeps many from being outdoors. Read more

PARIS — Billionaires Ernesto Bertarelli and Larry Ellison are so massively rich that they can afford to build two of the most awe-inspiring yachts that ocean racing has ever seen. Yet both are being outshone, even shamed, by 16-year-old sailors with... Read more