Hunting

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul – Tuesday marked the third and final deadline at the Legislature, and most bills conservationists and sportsmen had been watching still were in play. Dedicated funding passed the

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul – The follow-up to the wildly successful Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program isn’t progressing as smoothly. In a bonding bill passed last year (such bills typically are passed in

By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Bruno, Minn. – It’s been a while since Minnesota trappers have been this well compensated. But rejuvenated demand for fur in China and Russia, as well as other countries overseas,

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — Moments after a dedicated funding bill passed out of another House committee, other representatives were busy unveiling an uncharacteristically large bonding bill. And that all came one

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — At the DNR roundtable meetings earlier this year, Gov. Tim Pawlenty jokingly said the idea to dedicate a portion of the state sales tax to natural resources

By Dale Wetzel Associated Press Grand Forks, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota cannot extend preferential duck hunting rights to resident landowners while denying the same benefits to property owners who live outside the state, a

By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul – With the first legislative deadlines come and gone, four main conservation issues remain in play, as do a variety of smaller topics. The Clean Water Legacy Act