Department of Natural Resources roadside counts for August 1980 reported about 105 pheasants spotted per 100 miles driven on long-established southern Minnesota routes. The next year the number jumped ...

Staff of nonprofit wildlife rehab center near Menahga, Minnesota, care for abandoned and injured animals in hopes of ...

CATHY WURZER: Albert Lea, Minnesota Native Jacob Schlichter spent the beginning of the new year bundled up along I-35, photographing swans. The photographer and business owner was awarded the ...

Doug Franke, area wildlife manager for the Department of Natural Resources in Thief River Falls, says most of the wild turkeys in northern Minnesota today likely descended from birds released from ...

In August, the Minnesota Chapter of the Wildlife Society held its first "copper bullet demonstration" for deer hunters who wanted to test the performance of their own lead ammunition against ...

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota sees spike in unusual patients 02:07. ROSEVILLE, Minn. — It's been a busy year for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota.

Longtime Minnesota DNR Fish and Wildlife director to retire; new director named Dave Olfelt, of Grand Rapids, is retiring in July. Kelly Straka, of Proctor, will replace him as division director.

In the span of just a few months, Doug Pederson made four or five trips to the emergency room. "I thought at times I was done. Period," he said. After a moment's pause, he added: "It brought some ...

ST PAUL, Minn — Wildlife biologists in Minnesota are asking the public to keep an eye out for elk, bears, and other rare species. Elk were "functionally extirpated" by the early 1900s due to ...

Each year tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stop at a Minnesota wildlife refuge for an extended layover as part of their migration south. These birds are long-legged, loud -- and methodical.