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April 30, 2018

DNR: Even with new pike zone rules, special regs still take precedence

Special regulations are designed to meet specific management objectives for individual waters based on lake-specific fish population characteristics, the agency says. In contrast, the northern pike regulations for inland waters announced recently have three distinct zones to address the different characteristics of pike populations in Minnesota. 

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U.S. won’t restore Yellowstone grizzly protections

Review was launched when a federal appeals court said in a case involving gray wolves in the Great Lakes that the Interior Department needed to give more consideration to how a species’ loss of historical habitat affects its recovery – like wolves, grizzly bears in some parts of the U.S. have bounced back from widespread extermination, yet remain absent from most of their historical range. But, per grizzlies, Interior officials said that they disagreed with the ruling in the wolf case.

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New discovery could help in Lyme disease vaccines testing

MISSOULA, Mont. — Researchers identified the bacterium behind the debilitating Lyme disease decades ago. They have understood its life cycle requires an interaction between infected deer and the specific species of ticks that feeds on them. And they’ve known that while there are many different strains of the Lyme disease-causing bacterium, reinfection of people by

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