A May 2018 lawsuit brought by Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness and nine Northeastern Minnesota businesses against the Trump Administration appears to be wrapping up. Central to the case is a challenge to the Trump administration’s May 2018 temporary reinstatement of two long-expired mineral leases on Superior National Forest lands within the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). […]

Unseasonably cold weather means ice making has begun on many lakes across the state, but Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officers advise people to stay off of the still-forming ice. That’s because ice thickness is highly variable and subject to the whims of Mother Nature. Emergency responders already have responded to incidents where anglers have fallen through thin ice […]

An Otter Tail County kitten tested positive for rabies on November 12, 2019. The kitten bit three people, including a 4-year-old child and a pregnant woman. The owner of the farm where the kitten was fed reported she heard a commotion on her front porch midmorning on October 16. She saw a skunk on the porch attacking an approximately 6-month-old […]

Hunters, media members and anyone interested in deer harvest data can find current deer harvest figures and harvest reports for past years available on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources deer reports and statistics webpage. “A key objective of our statewide deer plan is to provide timely and accessible information about deer management and one of the more popular metrics […]