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 ...

Tract 1 of southern Minnesota's Wachter Wildlife Management Area (WMA) was conveyed to the state Department of Conservation in 1954 by Worthington-area landowners Helen and Ivan Wachter. This ...

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 ...

Minnesota’s wolf population, estimated at 2,900, remained relatively unchanged last year. Wolf numbers here have hovered between 3,200 and 2,200 since the late 1990s.

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 ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have reached an agreement over how and why logging will be conducted on Minnesota State Wildlife ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources plans to expand Carlton County's largest wildlife management area by another 495 acres. The DNR is working to acquire land formerly owned by lumber ...

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 ...

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.