Feb. 22—EAST GRAND FORKS — "Making sawdust" has been a passion for John "Jack" Donelan for more than half of his 87 years. It all started back in the '60s, when Donelan began carving "working birds" — ...

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Cape Girardeau, Mo. -- Families took time to learn how to make duck decoys together this weekend at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center's Duck Decoy Making workshop. Along the way, they also ...

Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...

Duane Steinkopf's motivation for carving his own spearing decoys was hardly storybook stuff, far less romantic than good old-fashioned German frugality would allow. "I started because I wasn't going ...

EAST GRAND FORKS – “Making sawdust” has been a passion for John “Jack” Donelan for more than half of his 87 years. It all started back in the ’60s, when Donelan began carving “working birds” – wooden ...