TWO HARBORS — Joe Shead has been shed hunting since 2001. Shead (yes, it's pronounced "shed") literally wrote the book on shed hunting in 2006: "Shed Hunting: A Guide to Finding White-Tailed Deer ...

Antlers are one of the most extravagant additions to an animal. The male ungulates (hoofed animals) that roam these lands use much of their energy to grow these appendages to help up their game in ...

A three-year study conducted by Fish & Wildlife, beginning in 2017, found that chronic high tick counts on moose are causing the species’ general health “to be very poor.” Donna Hill, right, of ...

Shed hunting is the pursuit for antlers cast off by members of the deer (cervidae) family, including whitetail and mule deer, elk, caribou, and moose. Every year in late winter or early spring, bucks ...

Every winter, male deer, elk, moose and other ungulates “shed” their antlers after the mating rut. Over the spring and summer, their antlers grow back, but collecting those dropped points strewn ...

When Chris Erickson saw the eagles and the turkey vultures circling, he figured something was up. Erickson and his son Richie, 17, were paddling back to their camp north of Grand Marais on Saturday ...

Antlers are a big reason why many hunt for deer and elk. I’m not saying it’s right, but it is the truth. The desire for big bucks continues to increase as the number of big bucks also increases on the ...

Canaan resident Dan Johnson was taking an early spring snowmobile ride six years ago when a moose walked down the trail toward him and stopped. The animal rested its head on a grooming vehicle that ...

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION — Will Staats made me swear to keep the location of our moose antler hunt a secret. Then he made me swear again. By the third time, I was a tad annoyed, roughly the same tad of ...