Grandmother Robin Kopel gives a high-five to Dawson Kopel, 3, after they finished his wood duck house during a free event at the Lake Lillian Community Center on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

The late Don "Duckman" Helmeke left many waterfowling legacies, not least the wood duck nesting box he designed that lives on through the Minnesota Waterfowl Association. Recently, I picked up a ...

Maribel Sportsman’s Club and Francis Creek Sportsman’s Club continue building wood duck, bluebird and bat houses. This time, we had a new junior builder with us for the first time. AJ Ganoni is one of ...

If you were to argue that wood ducks are the most beautiful ducks on earth, you wouldn’t be wrong. They’re beauties, they just are. A recent tweet, not a quack, announced that a few of these birds had ...

Members of Maribel and Francis Creek sportsmen’s clubs are again busy this winter building wood duck and bluebird houses for the public to put out on the landscape. Manitowoc County Fish and Game ...

The legacy of Roger Strand continues as youth and adults gather to prepare wood duck houses in Willmar for a new season. The cleanup revealed that last year was a big one for new hatchings. Daisy ...

The wood duck and bluebird house project headed by Maribel Sportsman’s Club and Francis Creek Sportsman’s Club continues to reach new milestones. Feb. 19, we built wood duck house No. 8,000 since the ...

Maribel Sportsmen’s Club and Francis Creek Sportsmen’s Club members kicked off the wood duck and bluebird house building season for 2021. This has been an ongoing project for the two clubs since 1990.

Members of Maribel and Francis Creek sportsmen’s clubs are again busy this winter building wood duck and bluebird houses for the public to put out on the landscape. Manitowoc County Fish and Game ...