NOTE: ALL ARTICLES ARE COPYRIGHTED BY MICHAEL FURTMAN. NO REPRINTING, POSTING, OR DISTRIBUTION WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S PERMISSION.

 

Selected Articles:

RETOOLING MINNESOTA'S DUCK FACTORY: Global climate trends indicate the prairies of the Dakotas, where as much as 50% of North America's prairie nesting ducks are raised, will become drier, while Minnesota's prairie will get wetter. Can Minnesota pick up the slack in duck production if this occurs? Here's a feature article I wrote for the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine that examines this issue.

THE ALPHA ACCIPTER: I didn't write this article March/April issue of the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine, but I was the principal photographer for the story. Photographing the secretive and aggressive goshawk while they were nesting was a great challenge! Click on the "Goshawk Encounters"  video link when you get to the Volunteer magazine page for a chance to see and hear a goshawk.

THE DEER WOODS -- A deer hunter explains his bond with the land -- MN Conservation Volunteer magazine

NO ROOM FOR DUCKS -- A duck hunter discovers the local implications of global population growth.

  BLUEBILLS -- Where Have They Gone? -- MN Conservation Volunteer magazine

In the North, In the Spring -- A wilderness paddler ponders lake trout -- MN Conservation Volunteer magazine -- MN Conservation Volunteer magazine

 Giving Thanks on the Prairie -- A hunter expresses gratitude for grasslands  -- MN Conservation Volunteer magazine

Waterfowling's Tug of War -- The politics of how duck seasons are determined -- MN Conservation Volunteer magazine

Church of the Silver Trout -- A steelhead fishing essay I wrote for the MN Conservation Volunteer magazine 

The Canoe Country Experience (A canoeing essay)

  Going Alone (Author's Note: This is a piece of fiction I wrote a long time ago. A few readers have asked to have it available again. It originally appeared some years ago in the magazine, Boundary Waters Journal.)

• God's Swamp -- An Essay On The Value of Wetlands
• Why Can't The Right Get Conservation Right? -- An Article On How The Political Right Dismantles Conservation While Offering No New Solutions
• Take a Number -- How Population Growth Affects Hunters and Anglers
• Hung Out To Dry -- Wetland Protection In The Wake Of SWANCC
• Remorse and Honor -- An Essay on Evolution, Hunting, and the Environment  Author's Note: This essay won 3rd Place, Big Game Magazine category at the 2002 Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference, and also won the "Thinking Like A Mountain" essay contest sponsored by the Izaak Walton League of America, and was published in their Winter 2001 issue of Outdoor America.

• The Case of the Stolen Jewels (How coaster brook trout disappeared and why they may return.)

• Hidden Treasures – How Some Coaster Brook Trout Populations Survived

NOTE: ALL ARTICLES ARE COPYRIGHTED BY MICHAEL FURTMAN. NO REPRINTING, POSTING, OR DISTRIBUTION WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S PERMISSION.