Minnesota Conservation Officer Tales

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will be surveying several lakes and streams in the Grand Marais area (Cook County) during the next few months. Survey results are used to evaluate fisheries management efforts and to determine whether additional efforts are needed. Results are also used to update individual lake management plans...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking public comments until June 13 on lake vegetation management plans for Caribou and Nichols lakes, which are located near Duluth in St. Louis County...

Agricultural encroachment into roadsides is becoming an increasing problem in many areas of Minnesota. The Minnesota departments of Natural Resources (DNR) and Transportation (Mn/DOT) reminds landowners with real estate adjacent to rural roads that fencing, plowing, planting row crops, or dumping rocks and other debris in the right-of-ways is prohibited by Minnesota law...

This is the time of year when young animals are scampering about lawns, roadsides and just about everywhere in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR)...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is accepting public comments through June 18 on the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) for the proposed restoration of Pelican Lake, a 4,000-acre designated wildlife management lake in Wright County near Albertville and St. Michael...

Mitchel Monforton of Mound finished as the national champion male archer in the elementary division and Chantelle Skarda of White Bear Lake finished fourth in the female high school division at the National Archery In The Schools (NASP) National Tournament May 10 in Louisville, Ky...

Tamarack trees are reeling from Eastern larch beetle attacks, and the evidence is everywhere, says the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR)...

Two bridges in the Beltrami Island State Forest are currently closed and being replaced. Both bridges are on the Pitt Grade Forest Road: the Schuh Bridge at the south end, just north of the Rapid River Forest Road, and the Lundeen Bridge just north of the Bankton Trail...

A report that recommends how to conserve Minnesota’s working forestland is now available, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).,,

The sharpshooting effort to remove deer in the bovine tuberculosis (TB) area of northwestern Minnesota, which began in February 2008, concluded on May 9. Sharpshooters, hunters and landowners have taken 1,207 deer since the fall hunting seasons closed as part of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) efforts to stop the potential spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in northwestern Minnesota...