Streams of Thought: Relocating elk to northeastern Minnesota on ‘pause’

Short mention was made during the Jan. 9 Minnesota DNR Roundtable regarding the progress – or, in this case, a lack thereof – of the state’s and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s effort to reintroduce elk to a portion of northeastern Minnesota.
In short, according to DNR Assistant Commissioner Bob Meier when asked a question from the gallery during an afternoon session, the state DNR is waiting for two tribal nations – Fond du Lac in the northeast and Red Lake in the northwest, to reach some sort of agreement before the project can continue forward.

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