Experience Outdoors - 2023

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By Celeste Edenloff Alexandria Echo Press

Janelle

FOLLOWING HER PASSIONS

has a passion for animals and the outdoors, especially hunting – whether it is with family or friends.

Negen

She grew up in Alexandria, but now lives in Miltona with her husband, Cory, and their daughter, Jordie, 5, and son, Casen, 3. They also have two dogs, Brutus and Ranger, some chickens, a horse, a pony and a donkey.

She’s always been into animals, as she was a dedicated and passionate 4-H’er who loved going to the county fair. She took pride in showing her animals and getting her other projects ready each year.

Janelle and her husband, who she met in 10th grade, got married in 2015 and they now own and operate Rolling Acres Retrievers and Pet Boarding.

Dogs are her greatest joy –whether training them, playing with her own, taking them hunting or using them to help others.

“The kennel was my dream, but Cory supports it fully and is the ‘hands-on’ worker behind our success – making my Pinterest pins come to life,” said Janelle. “From a young age, my dream job was to be a stay-athome-dog-mom.”

For the past couple of years, Janelle said, she has been boarding and training dogs for family and friends and it was always a goal to turn it into something bigger.

“Our dogs have a special place in our family and we love welcoming in new guests each weekend,” she said.

Another one of her passions is therapy dog work. She is a hospice therapy dog volunteer for Hospice of Douglas County. She and Brutus, a British lab, visit nursing homes, assisted living facilities and schools in the area.

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Alexandria Lakes Area Let's Go Fishing chapter offers seniors pontoon trips

By Sam Stuve Alexandria Echo Press

ALEXANDRIA - There’s a wide variety of outdoor activities that people of all ages can partake in. And Let’s Go Fishing provides opportunities for seniors and children to experience those outdoor activities. They go out on over 200 pontoon trips a year, all to give others the opportunity to experience the lakes in the Alexandria area.

“Seeing the expression on people’s faces when they get to come out here on the water because most of them don’t get that opportunity,” Loren Johnson of Let’s Go Fishing said.

“We like making their day,” Cindy Olson with Let’s Go Fishing said. “My mom went on a trip over where she lives with the Let’s Go Fishing people over there and Oh it just made her week. She was so looking forward to it.”

A couple of years ago, the COVID19 pandemic knocked down the number of pontoon rides that Let’s Go Fishing offers, but the number of trips and interest is back on the rise in the Alexandria area.

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Janelle Negen is pictured with her dog, Brutus, during a pheasant opener.

One such pontoon trip came on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. On that day, members of the Alexandria Lakes Area Let’s Go Fishing chapter offered members of the Alexandria Senior Center a two-hour pontoon ride on Lake Le Homme Dieu, launching off of Krueger’s Creek. This was a part of the Alexandria Senior Center’s celebration of National Senior Center Month in September.

And overall, that’s the mission of Let’s Go Fishing: to give senior citizens, veterans, and older adults the opportunity to experience the great outdoors.

“It’s very important to us to have veterans on board,” Johnson said. “The thing or two with the veterans is that a lot of them have been confined to a room. And once they get out here. Their whole expression changes. It’s just so rewarding to see their expression once this thing starts moving and they see the water.”

According to Dan Olson with the Alexandria Lakes Area Let’s Go Fishing chapter, the veterans, senior citizens, and older adults are thankful for the opportunity.

“They’re happy to have someone help them get on the boat and are happy to be out here because probably some of them actually lived on the lakes before,” he said. While their focus is on providing opportunities for older adults, veterans and senior citizens, Let’s Go Fishing said it’s important to get young kids involved in outdoor activities as well.

“It’s very important for them to be out with us, and it’s very rewarding,” Johnson said. “We get to some type of reaction up here. When they get here and this thing starts moving, we just tell them to go to school; they have to be sitting there, they understand, and they do that. Generally, it’s one of the supervisors that are with them. We love them, and it’s very rewarding for them and for us as well.”

Let’s Go Fishing has 17 chapters across the state of Minnesota, including one in the Alexandria Lakes Area. For more information on Let’s Go Fishing, go to https://lgfws.com/. To schedule a tripl or read more about the Alexandria Lakes Area chapter of Let’s Go Fishing, go to https:// alexandria.lgfws.com/.

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Mike Cook’s retirement hobby gets certified

By Jake Sutherlin Alexandria Echo Press

NELSON – Sunny Acres

Fish Farm Guided Fishing was certified by the Alexandria Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce Membership Team on Aug. 2, 2023. But owner, Mike Cook, has been working on his “retirement hobby” for roughly 25 years.

“I bought the property in 1995,” Cook said. “I farmed and rented the whole place out for two years, but I wanted to do something different.”

With the help of some friends and their backhoes and bulldozers, Cook began digging out ponds across his 80-acre farm in 1997.

“The land had a few natural wet spots,” Cook said. “But the clay is so awesome here that when you dig it out and pour water in there, it just stays.”

As of 2023, the property has seven ponds recognized by the DNR, and Cook is hoping to have two others surveyed. The ponds take up nearly 30 acres of his property and contain thousands of fish: large-mouth bass, walleye, sunfish, and perch.

Cook initially purchased fish from places like 10,000 Lakes Aquaculture and Bosek Fishery, but the ponds have become selfsustaining.

The business officially opened its doors in 2020, right at the outset of the pandemic. Since then, the farm has hosted about a dozen families/individuals, but only three in 2023.

“That leaves the business going backwards for now,” Cook laughed. “But this is an investment; the ponds aren’t going anywhere, and all the work is done.”

For the families that have come out to fish, Cook says the experience has been “priceless.”

“The kids have a ball,” Cook said. “They’re out here making memories, and they always leave with some beautiful pictures. The

first kid usually goes down to the dock, puts his pole in the water, and gets something immediately, almost always immediately. And the other kids start running around and can’t wait to get out there. Mom and Dad run down there with their phones to take pictures.”

He also noted that the kids love feeding the fish, too.

Cook’s partner, Traci Ness, added that the whole spectrum of ages enjoy coming down to the farm. It serves as a quiet spot where someone can sit by the pond and look out over the property with a pole resting by the lawn chairs.

No fishing license is required, nor is any previous experience. Cook serves as a hands-on guide: baiting hooks, removing the fish and, of course, helping take photos. An hour of catch-andrelease fishing costs $25. The property remains open in the winter for ice fishing, with several fish houses available.

Fish are also available for purchase if people want to keep them. Ness remembered a couple families that walked out with a dozen walleye this past year, for $10 a fish.

“You won’t find a deal like that at the grocery store,” Ness laughed.

The farm has also become a popular spot for birdwatching with woodcock, geese, kingfishers, swans, ducks, eagles and even a few snow owls having taken up residence there throughout the years.

In addition to the fishing business, Cook and Ness are also thinking about renting out the pondside cabin, which is fully furnished and equipped with a biffy.

The farm is located at 12238 Sunny Acres Rd. NE in Nelson and reservations can be made by calling Cook at (320) 766-5600 or messaging the Facebook page.

Sam Stuve / Alexandria Echo Press

A Let’s Go Fishing pontoon sets sail on Lake Le Homme Dieu on Sept. 14, 2023.

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Learn more about Janelle in the following Q and A.

Q: You train dogs –how did you get into that?

A: In 7th grade I started cleaning kennels for a professional trainer/breeder in our area. He raised British Labs, so that’s where my passion started. I spent hours at his place playing with puppies and watching him train. He ran hunt tests, so that’s where my interest in that started.

When I was in college, I got my first dog that I was going to train and finish myself. My mom had a female British Lab at the time. We spent time researching and found the perfect dog to sire our family’s first litter of puppies. I wanted a yellow male, and there was only one in the litter – Skeeter.

After getting Skeeter, I joined a UKC Hunting Retriever Club, the Prairie Lakes HRC. This allowed me to learn from other trainers of all levels, both pros and those who just wanted a hunting dog to pick up ducks. I started going to hunt tests and spent all my spare time watching videos and reading books on retriever training.

Currently, I am the vice president of Prairie Lakes HRC, and am a licensed AA Hunt Test judge with the HRC. I am also an AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator.

Q: What is your favorite breed to train?

A: There’s just something about a lab. They will always be my favorite.

Q: What is about dog training that you like? What keeps you doing it?

A: It’s such a rewarding sport. You get out of it what you put in. If you put in the time, you will see the results. And when your dog swims across a pond and picks up a 100-yard blind with zero cast refusals, it’s the best, most satisfying feeling ever – and it will make you become addicted.

Dog training becomes more than just a passion or hobby, it becomes a lifestyle.

I look forward to summers with all my dog training friends. We understand each other. We’re the same type of “crazy.”

Q: What about hunting? When and how did you get into it?

A: My passion for the outdoors is something my parents instilled in me at a very young age. It was a way of life for us. Most of my childhood memories include outdoor activities. We’d spend the summers traveling the United States with our pop-up tent trailer, visiting places like Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, the Badlands and numerous places in Minnesota.

We’d spend the fall at our deer shack up in Aitkin fixing stands, maintaining and checking food plots and four-wheeling.

Deer hunting was a family affair each fall. My parents were into bow hunting and my siblings and I would spend our fall evenings in a stand with one of our parents. We’d spend winters on snowmobiles and in the fish house.

I grew up with a passion for the outdoors and a strong desire to maintain an active lifestyle with many adventures. I’ve seen some of the most beautiful sunrises from a duck boat, and some beautiful, painted skies from my deer stand. Cory and I intend to raise our kids the way both of us were raised –in the outdoors.

I hope they value this lifestyle as much as we do and will learn positive life skills as they grow up by taking care of the dogs, putting in the time it takes to be successful at the sport and finding something they can be passionate about.

Q: What is your favorite part about hunting and why do you love it?

A: The time I’ve gotten to spend with my family doing things we all enjoy together is invaluable. It’s why I love it. To me, spending time together is what it’s all about. More often than not I can tell you stories about what happened in the blind or sitting in the truck at 4 in the morning, waiting to get into the field before I can tell you if we shot a limit that day.

It’s kind of an unspoken “rule” amongst our friends (especially my brother’s and husband’s) that if you find a good field and invite one of them hunting, he’s more than likely going to be bringing a wife or a sister, or both.

Opening deer hunting weekend is like a holiday to my family. My in-laws and grandpa are also a part of this. We spend weeks talking about who’s sitting where, what time we are meeting at the land, who is

Janelle Negen of Miltona shot this 12-point buck in 2018 on her family’s hunting land.

bringing what for food, etc. It’s a weekend you know everyone will be there because there is nothing more important.

Shooting a deer or bagging a limit has never been the important or most memorable, it’s always been about

the memories of the hunt, the experience of tracking the deer in the dark or disagreeing over who made the best shot at the last flock.

Q: What is your favorite animal to hunt and why?

A: It’s hard for me to choose. Pheasants probably come in at

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No. 1 because I get to hunt with my dogs. The feeling of watching your dog flush a rooster and make a perfect retrieve is unexplainable – I live for that!

Second would be deer. I have the biggest one on the wall in our house and I love reminding my husband of that all the time.

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Douglas County Pheasants Forever and Viking Sportsmen continue to provide for Outdoor Gear Library

By Sam Stuve Alexandria Echo Press

ALEXANDRIA - Over the last couple of years, the Viking Sportsmen and Douglas County Pheasants Forever, along with the Alexandria Community Education Foundation, have distributed gear to the Outdoor Gear Library at Shenanigans Indoor Playground next to the Early Education Center in Alexandria. Douglas County Pheasants Forever president and Viking Sportsmen board member Dean Krebs said it’s all about providing more opportunities for individuals to try different outdoor activities.

Alexandria College to add archery team in 2024-25 school year

Sports scene at Alexandria College

By Sam Stuve Alexandria Echo Press

ALEXANDRIA -

The sports scene at Alexandria College continues to grow.

In recent years, the college has added volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, and baseball, in addition to having competitive fishing, clay target, and eSports teams.

Starting with the 2024-25 school year, there is going to be an Alexandria College archery team.

“Alexandria Technical and Community College has been working with the Alexandria Shooting Park for many years with our Clay Target League, and to partner together to host archery is a great fit for our community,”

Sean Johns, Alexandria College dean of educational services and athletic director, said in an Alexandria College press release on Sept. 5, 2023. “We’re proud to be a destination college for prospective high school students across the state and the surrounding region who are deciding to go to college, and to give them the opportunity to pursue their passion of Archery and also reside in Minnesota.”

The Legends archery program will compete in the USA Archery

Collegiate Archery program and will become the first 2-year college in Minnesota to add archery. The 2023-24 school year will be used as a recruiting year.

The program will be led by head coach Dan Gates. Gates is an Alexandria College alum who is a USA Archery level two instructor.

According to the Alexandria College press release, “His passion for archery stems from bow hunting with his father while growing up in central Minnesota. Gates’s love of archery has led him to share it with others and donate his time to contribute to the development of youth archery in central Minnesota. In 2019, he became the youth archery coach for the Douglas County 4H Shooting Sports and Wildlife program through the University of Minnesota Extension. Archery has been a quickly growing sport with the help of programs like 4H and National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP).”

“I am very eager to begin the work

to build a highly successful collegiate archery program here in Alexandria and am honored to be leading our Legends,” Gates said in the press release. “I look forward to being able to continue developing archers’ abilities at the state collegiate level. I am confident that Alexandria College will have positive representation for Minnesota Athletics and look forward to putting my ever-expanding archery knowledge to work for our athletes’ individual and team success.”

Joining him on the coaching staff will be Tyler Notch, who is one of the four co-owners of the Alexandria Shooting Park.

Notch is also on the Executive Board of the Minnesota Backcountry Hunters and Anglers board of directors, along with the Alexandria City Planning Commission, and is the board president of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce.

“I have a passion for coaching others,” Notch said in the Alexandria College press

release. “Being able to serve as the assistant coach for the Legends Archery team gives me an opportunity to ensure the future of the sport and help our younger generations find passion in the sport like I have. Archery has truly changed my life for the positive, and I am eager to help others find their true selves through archery.”

“It’s just so that people can get outside and try different outdoor activities without having to make a financial investment into the equipment before they decide whether or not they like it,” Krebs said. “If you have a family of five people or something, if you want them to outfit them with snowshoes, it can cost a lot of money. So we want them to get out there, enjoy it, try it a couple of times, and see if they like it. Then you can make a decision as a family. This is some way to invest it.”

The items at the Outdoor Gear Library cost between $1 and $10 to rent out.

Items at the Outdoor Gear Library include water, camping/hiking equipment, bikes, yard games, hunting equipment, and snow gear.

Krebs said getting the equipment is a community effort.

“A small group of us that we will go out and solicit funds from area businesses or organizations, or we put in money ourselves,” Krebs said. “So it’s kind of a collaboration between us and businesses.”

And in the few years that the Outdoor Gear Library has been in existence, the interest in it has grown.

“It’s growing a lot,” Krebs said. “Todd Johnson and Lynn Jenc coordinate the administrative stuff and getting that equipment checked out. They just do a fabulous job. And we couldn’t do it without them. Obviously, they’re a very key component.”

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Dan Gates

Tyler Notch

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Tyler Notch (left), Alexandria Technical and Community College new assistant archery coach, and Dan Gates (right), new head coach, pose for a photo at Alexandria Shooting Park on Sept. 1, 2023. Notch and Gates are making Minnesota history as first 2-year college competitive archery coaches in the state.

Warren teen shoots trophy bull elk in Kittson County

By Brad Dokken

Grand Forks Herald

KITTSON COUNTY, Minn. –

They’d spotted the big bull elk the previous weekend, but when Ryker Copp went afield with his dad, Jerred, for his first day of elk hunting Saturday, Sept. 23, the elk was nowhere to be seen.

A seventh-grader from Warren, Minnesota, Ryker, 13, found out in July that he had drawn a once-in-a-lifetime

Minnesota elk tag for the second season in Zone 30, the Caribou Township area of northeast Kittson County, which has a reputation for producing trophy bulls.

Ryker was one of two hunters to draw an eithersex elk tag for Zone 30

Season H, which began Sept. 23 and continues through Sunday, Oct. 1.

Jerred Copp admits they “were a little bummed” when the big bull didn’t show the first day his son could hunt.

“We’d spotted this elk the Sunday before, and then I kind of kept an eye on him during the week when I could sneak up there, and

he was around,” said Jerred, who owns a seed company in Warren. “And then all of a sudden Saturday morning, there was no elk there. I was really trying to figure out where they went, and I guess they moved north a couple of miles, and we caught up with them on Sunday evening.”

Ryker – a “lucky little guy” when it comes to hunting, his dad says – kept his streak intact Sunday evening, Sept. 24, when he shot the big bull elk at 359 yards with a .300 Weatherby Magnum. The bull, which is estimated to weigh at least 950 pounds field-dressed, has an 8x10 rack that roughly measures

390 inches, Jerred says. The rack will have to dry for 60 days before it can be officially measured and scored.

All the practice shooting the 7th-grader had done leading up to the hunt paid off.

“When I saw it, I was probably shaking a little bit,” Ryker said Monday afternoon in a phone interview. “The hunt was fun, though. We had some elk bugling, too, and when he came out, he was bugling quite a bit, too.”

Another try

They’d only seen one small elk their first day afield, but Sunday afternoon, after yet

another Minnesota Vikings loss, they set up a ground blind at the edge of a soybean field where elk had been feeding, Jerred said.

“We didn’t want to get too close because the wind wasn’t very good,” he said. “It was an east wind, so we wanted to stay as far back as we could without them scenting us.” They had watched a couple of cow elk come out and then go back into the woods, followed by “three or four more” cows and a small bull, when the excitement level kicked up a notch.

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Jenc is the Community Education director, while Johnson is a recreation coordinator with Community Education and has been the activities director at Discovery Middle School since July 1, 2023.

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“All of a sudden, we heard some bugling, and I told him, ‘There he is, Ryker,’ ” Jerred said.

It was about 6:30 p.m. when the bull appeared 423 yards away. After what probably seemed like the longest 20 minutes in history, the bull came within 359 yards.

That was about as good as it was going to get, Jerred recalls.

“My biggest job was to get him calmed down to make the shot,” he said. “We watched (the bull) for probably 15-20 minutes. I had to keep cool so Ryker would be cool. I just kept telling him, ‘You can do this, you can do this. Take some deep breaths, calm down, it will be fine.’

snowshoes during the summer and many lily pads during the winter, but I should also say cross country skis and lily pads are very sought after,” Krebs said. “It varies by the year and by the season, and what people are going to do, and obviously some things are weather dependent.”

Another reason Krebs said that Douglas County Pheasants Forever and Viking Sportsmen continue to provide this equipment to the Outdoor Gear Library is in hopes that new people with try outdoor activities.

“It’s open to anybody,”

“And then when I asked him, ‘Are you good?’ he’s like, ‘Yep,’ and I said, ‘Flip your safety up and take the shot.’ It was a very exciting moment for a dad.”

And son.

“Once it was down on the ground, him and I were jumping up and down and highfiving, and I think that ground blind was probably 10 feet in the air,” Jerred said with a laugh.

As any big game hunter knows, the work begins after the animal is down. The landowner came with a tractor to help them load the bull into the back of the pickup, Jerred says.

“I have some friends who have a cabin up there, so they knew a lot of local people and brought us around to meet the locals so we could get permission,” Jerred said. “Very

Krebs said. “Don’t think that you can try this stuff yourself. Just go in and and rent it and try it and use it, and that’s what it’s for. So we want everybody to feel that they can use this stuff. It’s open to anybody in our community.”

The Outdoor Gear Library is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, yearround.

For more information on the outdoor gear library, go to https://www.alexschools.org/ Page/7173. For all Equipment Rentals, call 320-762-3310 Ext: 4242 Email sports and outdoors editor Sam Stuve at sstuve@echopress.com

nice landowners up there … and everybody was very open to it, so we’re really appreciative of that.”

They didn’t get back to Warren until after midnight, Jerred says, and a friend stopped by to help them skin the bull and prepare the cape for mounting. Monday, they registered the bull at the Department of Natural Resources’ area wildlife office in Karlstad, Minnesota, where staff also took tooth and tissue samples to age the bull and test it for chronic wasting disease. By late Monday afternoon, they were just about done cutting up the meat, Jerred said.

History of success

Success is nothing new for Ryker when it comes to hunting, his dad says. The 13-yearold has shot “wall-

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certified volunteer instructor classes in Wadena, Morris

By Sam Stuve Alexandria Echo Press

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is offering Certified volunteer instructor classes in Wadena on Oct. 14, 2023, and in Morris on Nov. 18, 2023, for those who want to become certified as a volunteer firearms instructor. According to the DNR, the certificate will allow volunteers to instruct the “Classroom and Online Firearms Safety Course and Field Day.”

mounter” whitetails in two of the three years he’s hunted deer.

“His very first year at 10, he shot a 12-point buck that scored 168 (inches),” Jerred said. “And then last year, he had one that scored 142, so he’s been a real lucky hunter.”

Nick Genereux of Outdoor Addictions Taxidermy in Crookston will mount Ryker’s latest trophy.

Jerred, who has hunted elk in Colorado and New Mexico, says he’s shot a couple of “decent bulls,” but nothing that compares with the bull his son shot on a September Sunday evening in Kittson County.

“I told him he could probably hunt the rest of his life in the Western states, and he’s going to have to get really lucky to beat (that bull),” Jerred said.

The DNR lists the following as certificate requirements:

• At least 18 years old

Pass a Background check

Complete Application/Background check forms and volunteer agreement provided by the RTO

Current Firearm Safety Certified

Name(s) attending

Date of the training

Phone number or e-mail address

The class in Wadena runs from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, at 13334 Knob Hill Road. To reserve a seat in this class, the DNR says to contact “Regional Training Officer Greg Oldakowski at Gregory.Oldakowski@state.mn.us” and provide the following information:

Name(s) attending

Date of the training

Phone number or e-mail address

The class is Morris also runs from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, at will be held at Morris High School. To reserve a seat in this class, the DNR says to contact, “Regional Training Officer Jen Mueller at jennifer.mueller@state. mn.us,” and provide the following information:

Name(s) attending

Date of the training

Phone number or e-mail address

These kinds of classes provided by the DNR are held throughout the state. To find all classes, go to https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/ instructors/training.html.

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