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Dennis Anderson: Walz, DNR propose to tap state surplus for $118 million to fix hatcheries, water accesses

A Department of Natural Resources gathering Friday in Bloomington with key stakeholders and Sarah Strommen, the agency's commissioner, detailed an ambitious $118 million onetime request Gov. Tim Walz is seeking from the state's surplus to repair and replace aging boat accesses, fish hatcheries and other outdoor-recreation infrastructure.

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Gov. J.B. Pritzker appoints former Downstate legislator as IDNR director

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Natalie Phelps Finnie, a former Downstate legislator, as the new director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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Minnesota Supreme Court rejects Mesabi Metallics' bid to keep critical iron ore leases

The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld the state's decision to terminate mineral leases for Mesabi Metallics' long-delayed iron ore project near Nashwauk.

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Dennis Anderson: DNR leader says funding needed, source to be determined

Appointed Department of Natural Resources commissioner in 2019 by Gov. Tim Walz, Sarah Strommen is the first woman to lead the conservation agency. In the interview below Strommen, now reappointed by Walz, looks back at recent conservation successes and also at challenges that lie ahead. The interview has been edited…

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Dennis Anderson: Tragedy behind, hunt of a lifetime ahead: Waseca officer Arik Matson leaves for Alaska adventure

Three years ago almost to the day, Arik Matson cut short his dinner at a Waseca restaurant and sped in his police cruiser to a changed life.

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New Minnesota public land projects to the fore in 2023

A remarkable year of acquisition and enhancement of public land is in store for outdoor enthusiasts in 2023, starting with $167 million in projects recommended for legislative approval by the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.

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Will Minnesota's moose ever thrive again?

DULUTH, Minn. — Northern Minnesota's moose have been hanging on for the past decade, reproducing and surviving at a rate barely able to keep up with an onslaught by wolves, bears, ticks and brainworm from deer.

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Minnesota finalizes plan to keep wolf population stable

Minnesota wildlife officials have finalized a plan to keep the state's wolf population stable for the next decade. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources would aim to keep the population between 2,200 and 3,000 animals, which is where it has been for about 30 years.

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Wisconsin DNR wants your salamander sightings

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is asking the public to report any observations of mudpuppies they may accidentally catch while fishing this winter with the species potentially declining across the state.

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Minnesota paper company sues feds over beaver dam removal

A paper company in northern Minnesota is suing the federal government over what it said was a bungled beaver dam removal that flooded two roads and a campground and left a lake clogged with debris.

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Wild turkeys, perch recipes, trail usage up, an artful analogy on ice usage

Wild turkeys in Will County, a perch recipe remembered, trail usage is up and an artful analogy on ice usage by the Indiana DNR are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dennis Anderson: Citing some whoppers, Minnesota proposes changes in big fish record-keeping

MINNEAPOLIS — People are fascinated by big fish, and the Department of Natural Resources, like other conservation agencies nationwide, keeps a list of "record'' fish caught in Minnesota — a program that requires anglers to tell the truth about the weight and/or length of their catches, a whopper of an…

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Know of any bear dens? Wisconsin bear researchers need your help.

SUPERIOR, Wis. — Finding a bear den randomly in the woods is tough, even if you know what you are looking for.

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Minnesota roadkill enthusiasts eat thousands of animals killed by cars

About this time last year, Alan Bergo, the forager and onetime chef of Minneapolis' late, lamented Lucia's, was driving near his home in Menomonie, Wis., when a yearling buck bounded in front of his car. Bergo hit the brakes — and the deer, which bounced off his bumper.

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Fungus, not bird flu, likely cause of goose and duck die-off in southern Minnesota

Bird flu did not cause a large waterfowl die-off last week on a southern Minnesota lake, the Department of Natural Resources determined after testing some of the dead birds.

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Lake Superior cisco population may be rebounding

DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Lake Superior fisheries team got some good news when they were out trawling on the big lake in October: The number of small cisco — commonly called herring by folks along the North Shore — were way up.

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Hunters killing more bears in South Carolina, despite criticism of ‘trophy hunts’

For the second consecutive year, South Carolina sportsmen killed a record number of black bears during the state’s often-criticized bear hunting season, a two-week period when the shy bruins are stalked in the mountains and on parts of the coast.

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The night everything changed: waiting for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The long read: Despite all the warning signs, as I sat down for dinner with friends in Kyiv on 23 February, war seemed unreal. Surely, Putin was bluffing?

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The Guardian - UK

‘They ran away like goats’: villagers celebrate liberation in Kherson region

First reporter to reach Mylove in the Kherson region hears how special forces swept in and the vindictive Russian troops blew up the village school before leaving

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‘It’s a miracle I’m here’: relief in liberated village near Kherson

Local people tell of horror and loss after surviving occupation by Russian troops and missile strikes

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Minnesota DNR web series provides know-how and doesn’t skimp on substance

MINNEAPOLIS — When the COVID pandemic shuttered the Department of Natural Resources' program to teach Minnesotans how to hunt deer in 2020, outreach specialists adapted and produced an 11-part web series, covering topics like finding the correct firearm to scouting locations to field-dressing a whitetail.

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Northern Minnesota experiment attracted some fishers — and other critters, too

DULUTH, Minn. — For the past three years scientists at University of Minnesota Duluth's Natural Resources Research Institute have been building houses for Minnesota's largest member of the weasel family, then attaching them to trees across Northland forests.

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On DNR hunting lands, intensified logging rattles wildlife managers

When 114 red pines were bulldozed inside Red Lake Wildlife Management Area last year to create new habitat, infuriated Minnesota timber industry officials denounced the trees' felling as "destruction" and a "slap in the face."

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Minnesota DNR biologist's passion is upland bird hunting behind setters

ALDEN TOWNSHIP, Minn. — In the woods northwest of Two Harbors, in a thicket of young aspen and alder, Bailey Petersen bent down to inspect a small patch of disturbed dirt.

The Independent UK

Signs of torture on bodies found in Ukraine town liberated from Russia

In recaptured Lyman, Kim Sengupta finds evidence of Russian atrocities and Ukrainian commanders ready to administer their own justice

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