
Wild turkey virus discovered in Minnesota
In 2024, after hearing reports about wild turkeys with facial lesions and warts on their faces and sometimes feet, the Minnesota DNR sought to understand the cause of the problem.
“We decided to grab

In 2024, after hearing reports about wild turkeys with facial lesions and warts on their faces and sometimes feet, the Minnesota DNR sought to understand the cause of the problem.
“We decided to grab

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) quota permit reservations will be available beginning at 9 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, for the May 1 – Sep. 30, 2026, season.
Visitors are

Twelve new Minnesota DNR conservation officers have completed their training and now occupy previously vacant field stations across the state.

At the Dec. 10 meeting of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, the commission approved two “emerging issues” projects that aim to gain better understanding of data center impacts on the state’s water resources.

Crookston’s Get Kids Outdoors-Adam Parnow Memorial, Inc. was borne from the untimely passing of Adam Parnow in 2023. His parents, Fred and Beth Parnow, have connected the community through the outdoors nonprofit in his memory.<br

The Minnesota DNR will conduct aerial elk surveys in the next few weeks when snow cover and other conditions allow.

No one had to give Joe Stangel a tour of the office when his new gig as the Minnesota DNR’s southern region wildlife manager position was made official in September.
For the year prior,

As the 2025 archery deer season neared its Dec. 31 end, Minnesota almost had its final tally on chronic wasting disease from the hunting season.
During the late-CWD hunt from Friday, Dec. 19, to

Top stories the past year include a wave of headlines from Washington D.C., the end (well, maybe) of the longstanding statewide shotgun zone, and another record wild turkey kill.
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