DNR continues partnership with USDA to manage wolf conflicts
While recent delisting has prompted some changes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services remains first point of contact for reporting wolf conflict incidents.
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NRCS prescribed burns revive habitat
Statewide plan, five-year contract center on Wetlands Reserve Program easements.
From tree-killing infestation arises hope for diverse forest
TWO HARBORS — As the ongoing spruce budworm outbreak turns dense, single-species stands of trees into fire hazards in Lake County and beyond, it gives landowners who clear the dead timber an opportunity to nurture a more diverse forest. More than $1.3 million in Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funds from the USDA’s Natural Resources
Seven CWD-positives from Crow Wing County deer farm depopulation
Another 13 of the 102 deer were too decomposed to allow for successful testing.
Once established, feral hogs hard to contain, eradicate
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — They are four-footed eating, breeding, rooting machines. Feral hogs are an invasive species present in at least 35 states, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. They cause billions of dollars in crop damage each year, and their rooting causes widespread and lasting environmental damage, according to the USDA. The porcine
Chronic wasting disease discovered in Winona County farm deer
Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed results with the USDA, has already quarantined the herd and started disease investigation.
Growing wolf population brings challenges for federal trappers
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Federal trappers are struggling to keep up with Minnesota’s growing wolf population, according to a Minnesota Public Radio report. Only U.S. Department of Agriculture trappers can kill problem wolves – those that attack cattle and the like – because of a 2014 federal ruling that put them on the endangered species
