Zinke proposes expanding hunting, fishing at 30 national wildlife refuges
Staff and News Reports
May 22, 2018
More than a third of those refuges are on lands in the Great Lakes region.
Minnesota
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin to collaborate on West Nile virus monitoring in ruffed grouse
Staff and News Reports
May 21, 2018
The three states are in the early stages of planning to test samples from grouse this fall, but at this point there is no evidence that the virus is having a population-level impact in the
8-year-old Rogers boy wins boat, motor, trailer in crappie tourney
Site Staff
May 21, 2018
An 8-year-old boy is the winner of a new fully-loaded boat with motor and trailer, the grand prize in the 50th Minnesota Bound Crappie Contest. Lincoln Erickson of Rogers won with a .93-pound crappy Saturday,
Whopper silver redhorse is a record
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 21, 2018
Avid angler Dustin Stone caught a new state-record silver redhorse in the certified weight category of the Minnesota DNR‘s record fish program. Stone caught the 10-pound, 6-ounce silver redhorse while fishing for lake sturgeon on
Stillwater angler sets catch-and-release sturgeon record
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 21, 2018
The 73-inch lake sturgeon pulled from the Rainy River bests the previous record by 3 inches.
The quest to save Minnesota wild rice – with floating bioreactors?
Site Staff
May 21, 2018
BABBITT, Minn. — An environmental engineer working with University of Minnesota-Duluth researchers is looking for a less expensive solution to protecting wild rice from mining pollution in the state’s Iron Range. Jeff Hanson has spent
Watching bird builders achieve annual spring feats of avian engineering
Tony Peterson
May 18, 2018
Hike or paddle the trails and waterways of the North Country these days, and you’ll witness borderline mind-boggling nest-building and rearing of young critters.
No grousing about birds this spring
Sharon Stiteler
May 17, 2018
Consider monitoring prairie grouse from a public viewing blind in Minnesota or the Dakotas.
Tagged bighead carp leads DNR to 2 others in St. Croix River
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 17, 2018
The carp were captured in Anderson Bay on the St. Croix River. One was a 46-inch, 39-pound mature male, and the second was a 43-inch, 46-pound mature female.
