The Department of Natural Resources says there are fewer than 250 whooping cranes in North America. The DNR is also asking hunters to be especially watchful so they don't mistake a whooping crane for other waterfowl.
Marshall Wayne Boshey was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release.
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The vehicle was stolen in a car-jacking in Minneapolis Thursday.
Gopher fans avert your eyes.
Tyler Leibfried's trial is set to begin early next year.
Parts of northern Minnesota could see more than a foot of snow, but there won't be much in the Twin Cities.
D'Angelo Russell stepped up but couldn't overcome Brooklyn's firepower.
"I’ve been running from it a long time. I’m not ashamed of it anymore.”
Both murders happened within a day of each other in June.
Police say all her family and friends have been contacted, and none of them know where she is.
The man is wanted in connection with a fatal shooting that happened Wednesday evening.
The county also commented on the situation, saying it hopes to help owner Zack Redmon.
The state sold 3,000 fewer waterfowl stamps this year compared to last. The Department of Natural Resources says they're not sure why -- especially this year -- when duck populations are up and the season opened a week earlier.
Department of Natural Resources officials say its the first cougar documented in Otter Tail County. They believe the big cat is traveling from the Black Hills in South Dakota.
Nearly seven thousand sandhill cranes were counted at the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge in Zimmerman last Friday. The birds coming from Canada and northern Minnesota are making a pit stop before heading south to Indiana and eventually Florida for the winter.
The Department of Natural Resources says a rare Blanding's turtle has been discovered in Martin County in south central Minnesota. Until now, the youngest Blanding's turtle was estimated to be 14-years-old.
Minnesota is one of several states dealing with a severe outbreak of the disease. Some 400 new cases have popped up in Minnesota this month. The people contracting the disease most often are older elementary school kids and middle schoolers.
Minnesota's number of whooping cough cases continues to grow. The state confirmed about 400 new cases of whooping cough in the past month, raising the total in Minnesota to nearly 2,400 infections this year. The number of confirmed cases is the highest since vaccines were introduced in the 1950s.
Wild rice growers on the Fond Du Lac Reservation say June floods devastated aquatic life in several lakes where fall harvests typically reap several thousand pounds of wild rice, which is used at community events, funerals and the school, WDIO reports. It was the first time in 13 years that there was no harvest, a natural resources program manager says.
The grouse population index has dropped significantly in Minnesota over the past three years and there are signals that the birds are descending on their 10-year boom-to-bust cycle. The DNR predicts that this is not the bottom, one state official told the Star Tribune that grouse numbers may not begin to rise again until 2014. It's unclear what kind of impact this exodus will have on Minnesota grouse hunters.
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