Squaw Lake, Minn. – When Minnesota's duck season opens Sept. 21, hunters hunkered in darkness will wonder what the dawn will bring. One thing is certain. Bill Gombold will be hunting over one of the ...

A free duck decoy painting program will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday and from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 16 at the J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center, 3400 N. 40th St. in Springdale.

Bob Metzger makes bird decoys. The decoys are mostly models of ducks, but also of swans, geese, sandpipers, puffins and other birds. He carves most of these decoys from bass wood, but he also makes ...