
Minnesota Mixed Bag: DNR unveils new shooting range finder web tool
A new web tool will make it easier for people to locate shooting ranges that meet their needs, according to the Minnesota DNR.

A new web tool will make it easier for people to locate shooting ranges that meet their needs, according to the Minnesota DNR.

The Minnesota DNR has set the state’s waterfowl-hunting seasons for 2024, including offering hunters a five-day early teal season, with its opener slated for Sunday, Sept. 1.
The backdrop of the early teal season

In an email to agency staff this morning, DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen announced that longtime agency Fish and Wildlife Division Director Dave Olfelt will retire effective July 3.
Strommen said that she is appointing

Minnesota’s sharp-tailed grouse population has been declining, prompting the Minnesota DNR to close the hunting season in the east-central region in 2021, while maintaining a season in the northwest area.
The 2023 sharp-tailed grouse

In physics, if an object is moving, it is said to have kinetic energy. Sabin Adams isn’t a physicist, but he is sympathetic to the principle, both personally and professionally.
“You could say I

Making scientific concepts and findings accessible to a general audience has long been a challenge for researchers. Most scientific journals have little readership outside academia, and the articles that appear in them are rarely written

Utility companies have started construction on a contentious power line crossing in a Mississippi River wildlife refuge.
ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative are looking to string the final mile of the Cardinal-Hickory Creek

An international maker of recreation vehicles has announced another large layoff at its boat plant in southern Minnesota.
Alumacraft, which manufactures aluminum fishing boats and is owned by Canada-based Bombardier Recreational Products, Inc. (BRP),

Tyler Hughes, of Mandan, N.D., snagged a record-tying 131-pound paddlefish on May 3 in the Yellowstone River southwest of Williston.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has confirmed that Hughes’ 74-inch paddlefish ties
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