Outdoors events, 11/23

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By the Lincoln Journal Star

Today

2008 firearm deer season ends 30 minutes after sundown.

Monday

Smokepole deer hunting, free muzzleloading clinic. 6:30-9 p.m. Cabela’s south of Exit 342 on Interstate 80 in La Vista. Call 471-6144 for information.

2008 deer and antelope archery seasons reopen 30 minutes before sunrise.

Friday

Junior Ranger Rendezvous, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. today, continues 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Nov. 30, Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice Free. Children completing activities will receive Junior Ranger Badge. For information, (402) 223-3514.

Saturday

Winter weekends at the zoo, noon-4 p.m. today, continues Sunday and Dec. 6, 7; Lincoln Children’s Zoo, 1222 S. 27th St. Admission, $4/ages 2 and over; train rides, $2/person.

Dec. 1

2008 muzzleloader deer season opens 30 minutes before sunrise.

Dec. 6

Bird-banding workshop, Nebraska’s Backyard birds, 9 a.m.-noon, Ak-Sar-Ben Aquarium, Gretna. For adults and children. Free. (402) 332-3901.

Primitive rope making, 2-4 p.m., Pioneers Park Nature Center, Prairie Building. $6/person. Register by Dec. 3 at 441-7895.

Dec. 7

Spring Creek Prairie holiday open house, 1-5 p.m., Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, 11700 S.W. 100th St., Denton. Free.

Winter Festival of Prairie Cultures, make traditional holiday crafts from different cultures, 1-3 p.m.; book signing by photographers Steve and Bobbi Olson, 3 p.m., Homestead National Monument of America, Beatrice.

Dec. 31

2008 archery and muzzleloading deer seasons close 30 minutes after sundown.

2008 fall turkey archery season closes sundown.

Jan. 1

2009 antlerless firearm season, statewide, 30 minutes before sunrise. Open to hunters who did not fill permit in November firearm season. Antlerless deer only.