BOISE, Id. — At a lunch earlier this month, two Idaho officials, a project engineer and an invasive species expert, walked along the shore of the Snake River, eating hard-won slices of pizza. They’d been at the bottom of the canyon near the Twin Falls Dam for two weeks, often working 18-hour days in the state’s fight against e that had ...Read more

GRANTSBURG, Wis. — Sandhill cranes came in by the dozens, and then dozens more, to the grassy marsh of Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. They had spent the day feeding in nearby fields and now were arriving in large numbers at a favored roosting spot.

They announced themselves with nasally, bugling bursts, outnumbering about 40 people gathered on ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — They’re big. They’re beautiful. And there’s lots of them.

Perhaps too many?

Trumpeter swans are now reproducing at a rate no one predicted when 150 fragile eggs were transported to Minnesota from Alaska, beginning in 1987.

Carrol Henderson was the Department of Natural Resources non-game wildlife chief at the time, and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Before Isaiah Osborne signed up for the military at age 17, before he went into active duty after graduating from New Ulm Cathedral High School, and before he was a crew chief on a Marine rescue helicopter, he was his own bird dog in southern Minnesota.

“In high school, after football practice, one of my buddies and I would ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gridlock in the nation’s capital will mean fewer areas to hunt in Missouri this fall and winter.

The Missouri Department of Conservation has announced it is removing nearly 5,000 acres of land from a program designed to allow outdoor enthusiasts to use specially designated private property for hunting and fishing.

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