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Dennis Anderson: Held together 'by baling wire and duct tape,' DNR hatcheries need legislative help

Four years ago, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) contracted with an engineering firm to determine repair costs for the state's 15 fish hatcheries.

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'Just a beautiful complex': Minnesota maps new hunting and wildlife areas full of benefits

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.

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In the courtroom and the skies, tribe carries on its challenge of the Line 3 pipeline

MINNEAPOLIS — Over two days last November, an aircraft outfitted with high-definition thermal imaging equipment flew the 340-mile length of the Line 3 oil pipeline across Minnesota. It was scouting for evidence of more construction-related damage to the state's aquifers.

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Bears are up and about. Don't leave any food out for them.

DULUTH, Minn. — Readers might remember the bear we wrote about in December, a big bruin that was eating his (or her?) way across the city's Congdon neighborhood until he finally decided to take his winter nap under Jeanette Anderson's front yard.

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Chicago fishing, Midwest Fishing Report: Trout opening day, coho, browns, steelhead, largemouth, (smelt?)

The opening of Illinois’ trout season leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; plus there’s coho, brown trout and steelhead on southern Lake Michigan with largemouth bass and crappie bites building inland.

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Pretty in pink: Beach stands out from gray rocks along Superior's North Shore

MINNEAPOLIS — In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, one beach in northern Minnesota stands out. While most of Lake Superior's iconic shoreline is gray rock, this stretch is a surprising pink.

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Conscripts sent to fight by pro-Russia Donbas get little training, old rifles, poor supplies - sources

Military conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbas region have been sent into front-line combat against Ukrainian troops with no training, little food and water, and inadequate weapons, six people in the separatist province told Reuters.

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Dennis Anderson: DNR biologist says proposed walleye limit cut is a social issue that won’t yield more fish

Paul Radomski is a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologist and author of the forthcoming University of Minnesota Press book "Walleye: A Beautiful Fish of the Dark.''

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Dennis Anderson: Walleye limit cut to 4 popular among anglers and might help, Brainerd guide says

Nate Blasing is president of the Walleye Alliance, a Brainerd-based group that wants the Legislature to cut Minnesota's walleye limit from six to four. Blasing, 43, is a part-time fishing guide and University of Minnesota Duluth graduate who studied environmental science and communications. In the interview below, he explains why…

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Man ‘not sorry’ for cutting up cedar bridge is sent to prison

A man caught cutting chunks of cedar from a logging bridge showed no remorse and now faces the consequences of his destructive actions.

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Dennis Anderson: Is cutting the walleye limit to four a good idea? Retired DNR fisheries manager says no.

Gary Barnard retired in 2019 as Department of Natural Resources area fisheries supervisor in Bemidji, ending a 43-year DNR career. In this interview he says he disagrees with a legislative proposal to cut the statewide walleye limit from six to four, and says many other DNR fisheries professionals oppose it,…

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Drastic water-use changes proposed to steady White Bear Lake levels

Minnesota regulators say that keeping White Bear Lake at the court-ordered water level would require such draconian restrictions they'd have to cancel all water use by schools, hospitals and businesses in a 5-mile radius.

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Dennis Anderson: Makes no scientific sense, but DNR, Legislature mull cutting walleye limit

Since the pandemic's onset, the words "follow the science" have been spoken so many times by so many people on so many sides of so many issues, the directive has all but lost its meaning. On the mask/no mask issue alone, follow the science means one thing one day and…

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Minnesota DNR calls for tougher deer farm rules to fight chronic wasting disease

State wildlife officials want tough new regulations placed on deer farms to slow the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to a report filed today with the Legislature.

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Fish and wildlife managers put ‘more teeth’ in southwest’s Heron Lake

For the fifth time in as many decades, Heron Lake in far southwestern Minnesota has a revamped natural resource management plan.

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