DNR

We're off to an unusually fast start to the winter recreation season.

WATAB TOWNSHIP -- A Sartell man who fell through thin ice on Little Rock Lake is reportedly awake and communicating with doctors, thanks in part, to a DNR Conservation Officer's quick thinking. Acting Lieutenant Tony Musatov of Sauk Rapids and two other men hopped into an aluminum boat and quickly did whatever they could to reach 30-year-old Joshua Johnson who was struggling to stay afloat... Read

DNR leaves Lake Mille Lacs walleye slot unchanged

The firearms deer hunting season opens Saturday and officials with the DNR are reminding hunters of some safety tips.

Wildlife managers say a young female moose that frequented Crookston earlier this year has died.

UNDATED -- When Minnesota pheasant hunters hit the fields for the first time this weekend, they may have to search longer and harder for the ringnecked birds. Rachel Curtis headed-up the pheasant population survey for the DNR this year. She says the pheasant populations in the state are down an estimated 29% from last year...

UNDATED -- With news of zebra mussels discovered in a Stearns County lake, the DNR is again reminding shoreland owners to check for invasive species when removing docks, rafts and boat lifts this fall. The DNR asks you to carefully check the equipments to make sure there are no invasive species like zebra mussels, Eurasian watermilfoil and New Zealand mudsnails attached...

Zebra mussels have been found in a Stearns County lake...the first one on record.

DNA tests confirm a wolf trapped and killed at a northern Minnesota campground is the same wolf that attacked a 16-year-old there.

Area oak trees have been producing an abnormally large crop of acorns this season. With the dry summer weather some would think there be a correlation between the two, but that's not the case.