Herd-thinning could begin this week after case of CWD
Killing hundreds of deer in southeast Minnesota near the town of Pine Island will be a challenge, the Department of Natural Resources is learning. The herd-thinning -- which could begin as early as...
View ArticleIn the cross hairs: DNR finds replacement for key deer manager
For nearly 10 years, Lou Cornicelli was in the hot seat. As Department of Natural Resources big game coordinator, Cornicelli steered deer management decisions affecting 500,000 deer hunters, many with...
View ArticleNo venison for some hunters this Christmas No venison for some this Christmas
Minnesota's 2011 deer harvest is 191,500, down about 7.5 percent from last year -- and the lowest in 12 years. With only a week left in the deer archery season, that number will change very little,...
View ArticleBWCA fire may be boon to moose
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The fire still smoldering in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness should give a boost in the long-run to the region's declining moose population, but it's a big problem for...
View ArticleNew tools may help solve Minnesota's moose mystery
GREENWOOD LAKE, Minn. -- Our group's two-way radio was dead, but we still could tell where the downed moose was by the tight-circling Cessna spotter plane overhead. We snowmobiled in as far as we...
View ArticlePa. hunts for deer control solutions
Near Koening Field in Edgewood, white-tailed deer mow the backyards and gardens. Deer eat the bushes surrounding Galleria Mall in Mt. Lebanon, and in Ross they run rampant from Babcock Boulevard...
View Article>Minn. DNR seeks 'concern' status for moose
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is proposing to list the state's iconic moose as a "species of concern," the lowest initial designation on a list of animals and...
View ArticleMinn. DNR seeks 'concern' status for moose
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is proposing to list the state's iconic moose as a "species of concern," the lowest initial designation on a list of animals and plants seen as at risk of...
View ArticleDeer registration gets easier for most Minnesota hunters
For Minnesota's 500,000 deer hunters, it's one of the biggest changes to come along in decades. This fall, for the first time, most hunters can register their deer via phone or computer -- though...
View ArticleOutdoors Notes: Number of deer registered in person is expected to drop
The 700 Minnesota stores that act as deer registration stations likely will see even less traffic from hunters this season then they did last year. Which won't make them happy. That's because even...
View ArticleMany hunters won't get a shot at seeing a wolf
One-half hour before dawn Saturday, wolves will again be hunted in Minnesota. Not like they were a half-century ago, with strychnine and airplane gunners, but by a smattering of deer hunters toting...
View ArticleDeer feeding ban starts next week in four counties
A deer feeding ban will begin in four southeast Minnesota counties Feb. 14, the Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday. The ban prohibits wild deer feeding in Dodge, Goodhue, Olmsted and...
View ArticleNew efforts to save state's iconic moose
The once-thriving moose population in northwestern Minnesota has all but disappeared, and the remaining population in the state's northeastern region is on pace to die out in as soon as 20 years, but...
View ArticleState's first expected case of CWD in deer to test DNR
The Department of Natural Resources announced Friday that a single whitetail doe killed by an archer Nov. 28 in southeast Minnesota is believed to have been infected with chronic wasting disease...
View ArticleGPS will help biologists address decline of moose
Starting this month, some of Minnesota's few remaining moose will become the most intensely studied of all ungulates, when the state launches a major research project designed to figure out why they...
View ArticleMoose sighted near Minocqua
Gene and Sue Esker have grown accustomed to living among the wild ones at their Town of Minocqua home. "Oh sure, bears and deer are coming through all the time," said Sue, 65. "We've seen wolves. And...
View ArticleHunting moose a rare Minnesota challenge
Colby Smith peered through thick early-morning fog atop a rocky knoll in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and grunted like a bull moose. "It was probably the worst moose call I've heard in my...
View ArticleDeclining moose population means Minnesota DNR likely to cut moose hunt...
BEMIDJI, Minn. - Officials of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources say they likely will cut the number of moose hunting permits in half for this fall's moose season. That follows the latest...
View ArticleDennis Anderson: Mission possible on the trail of CWD
RED WING, MINN. — From a blue sky here one day last week appeared a helicopter flying as most do, advancing with a thump, thump, thump of its rotors, presumably transporting a sick or injured person...
View ArticleDNR: Moose population continues to fall
Moose in northeast Minnesota continue their population decline, the Department of Natural Resources said Thursday. Not only were moose numbers down from a year ago -- 5,500 to 4,900 -- an aerial...
View ArticleSmith: Hunting moose a rare challenge
Colby Smith peered through thick early-morning fog atop a rocky knoll in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and grunted like a bull moose. "It was probably the worst moose call I've heard in my...
View ArticleHunting moose a rare challenge
Colby Smith peered through thick early-morning fog atop a rocky knoll in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and grunted like a bull moose. "It was probably the worst moose call I've heard in my...
View ArticleStanding room only at Pine Island for CWD meeting
Hunters had questions for DNR big game coordinator Lou Cornicelli Monday evening at Pine Island. The DNR began a chronic wasting disease informational meeting with hundreds of southeast Minnesota...
View ArticleWhat's killing Minnesota moose? Researchers launch new effort to find out -...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Moose have been falling over and dying across Northeastern Minnesota at a disturbing rate in recent years, and researchers still don't know why. But starting in a few days,...
View ArticleMinnesota's iconic moose population in decline
Fly over northeastern Minnesota with "Sky Dan" and you would see a moose. One time, he spotted 15 of them during an hour flight. The pilot was so confident that he even offered those on his aerial...
View ArticleWhat's killing Minnesota moose? Researchers launch new effort to find out
But starting in a few days, researchers will put GPS collars and satellite phone transmitters on 100 adult moose to find out exactly when and where they die. The collars will send a text message to...
View ArticleMoose population continues to fall; DNR says hunting season in doubt
Minnesota's moose population continues its perplexing decline, and now officials are pondering whether to continue the moose hunting season. Researchers counted 4,230 moose during an aerial survey...
View ArticleMinnesota's iconic moose population is falling - Wire Lifestyle - The...
Fly over northeastern Minnesota with "Sky Dan" and you'd see a moose. One time, he spotted 15 of them during an hour flight. The pilot was so confident, he even offered those on his aerial tours a...
View ArticleThere will be a Minn. moose hunting season, but with limits
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will offer a limited bulls-only moose hunt next fall, though it is closing two hunting zones because of a declining population of the species. The state's...
View ArticleMontana, Wyoming investigate plummeting moose populations
In the past 30 years, the population of Shiras moose in northwestern Wyoming has declined, in some places precipitously. Alarmed by the swift downturn, researchers have been studying the largest...
View ArticleMinnesota to allow limited moose hunt this fall
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Despite the sharp decline in the state's moose population, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday it will allow a moose hunting season this fall. DNR officials...
View ArticleMinnesota moose population continues free fall
Minnesota's moose population has dropped by half in the past five years, and officials say the iconic animal could be gone from the state in 20 years. "It's clear that moose are continuing to go down,...
View ArticleMinn. DNR backs limited moose hunt
A limited moose-hunting season set for next fall won't contribute to the disturbing decline in Minnesota's moose population, state wildlife officials said Tuesday. About 50 moose are expected to be...
View ArticleDNR plan: Ban deer feeding to aid moose
Worried that Minnesota's iconic North Woods moose population could be doomed, the state Department of Natural Resources is proposing an end to recreational deer feeding in northeast Minnesota and the...
View ArticleDNR plans to ban deer feeding to help moose
Worried that Minnesota's iconic northwoods moose population could be doomed, the state Department of Natural Resources is proposing an end to recreational deer feeding in northeast Minnesota and the...
View ArticleMinnesota cancels moose hunting season, citing sharp decline in moose population
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota canceled the state's 2013 and future moose hunting seasons Wednesday, citing a "precipitous" decline in the moose population. Department of Natural Resources officials said in a...
View ArticleMoose population in Minnesota drops dramatically; hunting suspended
MINNEAPOLIS -- The moose population is now dropping so fast in Minnesota that conservation officials are suspending hunting of the iconic animal indefinitely. The Minnesota Department of Natural...
View ArticleMinn. cancels moose hunting as population plummets
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota canceled its moose hunting season Wednesday, citing a precipitous decline in the moose population, as researchers try to get a handle on...
View ArticleMinnesota moose: Can they be saved?
GREENWOOD LAKE, MINN. The young bull moose heaved himself out of the snow and lumbered away, paying no mind to the pod of humans who watched anxiously from a few yards off as he disappeared into the...
View ArticleMichigan tribe opposes any possible moose hunt in the Upper Peninsula
TRAVERSE CITY -- An American Indian tribe has come out against any possible moose hunt in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and claims to have the legal authority to stop it. A state official called that...
View ArticleMissing targets
For the first time in 25 years, the half-dozen hunters at Wayne Enger's deer hunting camp near Perham, Minn., didn't shoot a single deer this fall. "I would say the deer population was down...
View Article50 wolves killed during Minn. hunt opening weekend
TOWER, Minn. (AP) — Hunters killed at least 50 wolves during the opening weekend of Minnesota's first managed wolf hunt, the Department of Natural Resources said. The region's wolves were taken off the...
View ArticleDeer harvest stages a rally
Good weather and a Veteran's Day holiday that fell on a Friday likely enticed more Minnesota deer hunters to the woods, boosting harvest. The firearms deer harvest, which had been down 20 percent after...
View ArticleMinnesota's iconic moose population is falling
"If you didn't see a moose, you didn't pay," Dan Anderson, 49, said. No longer. Anderson stopped providing refunds to customers in 2008. He was handing back too much money. The state's iconic moose...
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