The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reporting a higher number of deer harvested during the 2024 hunting season.

Gov. Tim Walz announced that a crew of Minnesota wildland firefighters have been sent to Southern California to help fight the ongoing wildfires.

DNR aerially surveyed 17.5 million acres of Minnesota for damage to forests in 2024. Since the early 1950s, aerial surveys have been a valuable tool for discovering, tracking, and managing forest health threats like spruce budworm, oak wilt, ice storm damage, eastern larch beetle, and more.

A10-person crew from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is heading to southern California to help fight the ongoing wildfires.

The crew, which is part of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is highly skilled and specially trained in all aspects of wildland fire impression.

The Minnesota team will assist with current fire response efforts and may also be called upon to help with new outbreaks

This is year two of the Minnesota DNR stocking Hiniker Pond with rainbow trout. Minnesota’s lake trout opener for lakes outside of the boundary waters is Saturday, Jan. 18. Jackson Jirik and Tony Peregrin talk to Waterville Fisheries Supervisor Craig Soupir.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, in coordination with other Tribal entities, local governments, landowners and other stakeholders, has kicked off public engagement on the Northeast Omashkooz (elk) Restoration and Management Plan.

There is exciting and important work underway to reestablish elk in northeast Minnesota,” said Sarah Strommen, Minnesota DNR commissioner.

Minnesota fishing license sales have been fast and furious since Thanksgiving, popping at a rate not seen in more than a decade as ice fishing makes a comeback after two difficult years. For the six-week period between Nov.

Hunters in Minnesota shot more than 170,000 deer during the 2024 hunting season, up 7% statewide from the 2023 hunting season, the Department of Natural Resources reported Wednesday, Jan. 22. The

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, in coordination with other Tribal entities, local governments, landowners and other stakeholders, has kicked off public engagement on the Northeast Omashkooz (elk) Restoration and Management Plan,