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To save wild rice, hundreds of geese killed near Lake Superior

Kris Eilers assumed someone would reach out once the killing started.
Her instincts were spot on.
“Some people sent me photos of them capturing geese,” said Eilers, executive director of the St. Louis River Alliance. “I think people thought that they were strangling them right there.”
Officials from the Wisconsin and Minnesota departments of natural resources, along with federal officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, were not strangling geese in late June and early July this summer. They did, however, use carbon dioxide to suffocate the birds.

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Minnesota DNR navigates complex North Shore relationship on the Knife River

Shary Zoff has a dam problem.
“This area used to be a little lake,” Zoff said, gesturing toward a patch of clumpy brown grass.
As she hesitantly moves her feet, Zoff steps through pockets of grass and snow toward the cold, flowing waters of the West Branch of the Knife River. Her home is nearby, just over the ridge from this quiet piece of wilderness situated about 10 miles from Two Harbors and Lake Superior.

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