Population estimated at 1,250, but there has been some concern new regs could overshoot the mark and allow population to fall below 150, which would mean USFWS management.
Longtime Minnesota DNR employee has remained active and working on conservation projects since retiring in 2016.
But pre-cautionary electrofishing found no carp – just eDNA of the invasive fish in Erie waters.
He won with his painting of a pair of redheads floating in the water.
A record 22 captive-born Mexican gray wolf pups have been placed into dens in the wild in the southwestern U.S. to be raised by surrogate packs.
On April 23, Minnesota DNR received an anonymous tip about two dead bald eagles in a rural area near the Blackduck River in northwestern Minnesota.
And the fish, which was caught by a USFWS crew and could be more than 100 years old, is still out there as it was released back into the river.
The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years.
Disease outbreaks or extreme weather could cause a catastrophic loss of the crane’s current population, according to the study.
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