Outdoor Steward: 5 top implements for managing your property
Christopher Jennings
February 21, 2023
Tools for food-plot building and other hobby farm chores.
Environment
Iowa’s ’Chickadee Checkoff’ donations to aid wildlife keep falling
Erin Jordan / The Gazette
February 20, 2023
The program’s donors have steadily declined in number over the years from nearly 13,000 in 2003, the first year the Iowa DNR tracked the number of donors, to 6,269 for tax year 2021.
Looming spring means start of Iowa’s prescribed burning season
Steve Weisman
February 20, 2023
Each spring Iowans see clouds of smoke billowing up from both state wildlife areas and on private tracts of grassland all across northwest Iowa. Citizens sometimes question or complain about the fire eating up the
Chesapeake Bay, farmers, anglers, workers need Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program
Ben Moyer
February 17, 2023
A responsible parent continues to monitor and care about their child’s wellbeing, even after that offspring leaves home. Which is why we should feel deep concern about the 2022 State of the Bay Report compiled
Fishers and farmers working together in Upper Mississippi basin
Brian Mozey
February 17, 2023
There are four goals that Fishers and Farmers Partnership strives for each year. The first is to engage farmers and ranchers. Second, the FFP wants to support fish habitat conservation projects. Third, members want to
Minnesota Pollution Control says rainfall-driven runoff killed Rush Creek trout in July 2022
Staff Report
February 16, 2023
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on Thursday said that rainfall-driven runoff likely caused a fish kill in Rush Creek near Lewiston last summer.
The incident, which was discovered on July 26, 2022, occurred within
Commentary: Minnesota considering Cloquet Forestry Center transfer a bad idea
Alan Ek
February 16, 2023
As a University of Minnesota School of Forestry alumnus and former faculty member and department head, I am writing to oppose the U of M’s proposed transfer of the Cloquet Forestry Center to the Fond
Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, LCCMR appointments made
Brian Mozey
February 16, 2023
The Legislative- Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources and the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council have new members. There’s currently a mix of new and returning members, while both bodies await more appointments by the Minnesota House,
Landowner help is sought to aid endangered animals
Associated Press
February 16, 2023
The proposed rule involves a section of the federal law that offers exceptions to its broad prohibitions on harming species listed as endangered or threatened.
