Hunting
DNR plans CWD response
St. Paul – The DNR plans to test road-killed deer for chronic wasting disease from the area around the farm where a captive elk last month tested positive for the disease. The 7-year-old elk lived
Huge southeast buck ready for P&Y book
Hokah, Minn. – When the new Pope and Young record book is available in a few months, it will feature a new record for the top nontypical Minnesota whitetail, a buck known in southeastern Minnesota
Latest funding shortage could mean more CO field vacancies
Little Falls, Minn. – When it comes to tightening belts to address a reduction in funding to the state of Minnesota, there are few options for the DNR’s Enforcement Division but to cut staff. After
Bill would allow bear stands on WMAs
St. Paul – A number of bills aimed at Minnesota’s outdoors were introduced this week, among them a bill that would allow portable stands to remain overnight in state wildlife management areas, but only for
State increases Mille Lacs safe harvest levels from ’08
DNR Reports St. Paul – Safe fish harvest levels have been set at Lake Mille Lacs for the 2009 fishing season. The safe harvest of walleye has been set at 541,000 pounds, up from 430,000
CWD found in private Olmsted Co. elk herd
St. Paul – An elk raised on a farm north of Rochester in Olmsted County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The discovery – the result of routine testing of slaughtered cervids – marks
Two years later, wolves again delisted
Washington – For the second time in as many years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed timber wolves from the Endangered Species List in the Midwest. Delisting occurred in March 2007, but a
