January 27, 2009

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conservation officers, deputy sheriffs, police and other law enforcement officers remind citizens that fleeing an officer on foot or in any vehicle, including all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and snowmobiles, is a felony offense. Depending on the circumstances of the event and whether there were injuries or deaths, penalties can […]

Turkey Run State Park and Raccoon State Recreation Area are teaming up to offer an weekend of bald eagle activities, Feb. 6-8.  Road trips to eagle roosting and nesting sites, seminars on owls and raptors, presentations on birding, along with plenty of time to socialize with fellow birding enthusiasts will highlight the weekend. Turkey Run

After 150 years or more, ospreys may successfully nest south of the Twin Cities. Last spring, an osprey pair attempted to nest in Le Sueur County on a power pole adjacent to fish rearing ponds at the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fisheries facility at Waterville. This is the first documented case of an active

Madison – Climbing a tree is not like riding a bike. For hunters who scaled trees as children but haven’t done it as an adult, it does not come back with that first leg up a tree branch in search of the keen hunting spot. This is why a Wisconsin hunter education specialist urges hunters

Madison – Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank today announced that 11 conservation wardens have completed their year-long training and will be taking their posts in communities throughout the state in the coming weeks, boosting protection of Wisconsin’s natural resources and public safety. The wardens were hired in the fall of 2007, prior

With spring gobbler season just around the corner, hunters will be happy to know that turkey tags are now being mailed to most hunters. Thanks to changes in the licensing system administered by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR), most spring turkey hunters will receive a set of turkey tags in the mail the

Indiana hunters killed 610 wild turkeys during the 2008 fall wild turkey hunting season. Wild turkeys were killed in 57 of the 74 counties open to turkey hunting during the season, which ran from Oct. 1 to 19. The 2008 season was Indiana’s fourth modern-day fall turkey hunting season. Hunters experienced a 4 percent increase

Babcock, Wis. – Central Wisconsin high school students have been conducting research on porcupine ecology for 13 years at the Sandhill Outdoor Skills Center near Babcock, and people interested in learning more about what they have found out about these fascinating and incredibly prickly rodents may join them for an upcoming clinic on porcupine ecology.