One reason might be the lack of diseases on the open prairie. Experts are struggling to determine why the moose is dying off so rapidly in Minnesota.
Experts expect a rapid decline over the next month followed a period of calm.
He crashed into a light post near the Capitol and then fled on foot, the complaint says.
The 4 1/2-month-old bullmastiff had been missing more than a week.
Come for the "garbage pile," stay for ... even more breakfast food.
The new name and look was unveiled after community owners voted on a winner.
Police say the organization sold more than 10 pounds of heroin and fentanyl in northern Minnesota.
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A boiler problem caused the heating issue.
Cases remain very high but hospitalizations have been plateaued for the past week.
The trooper was in his squad when another vehicle struck.
When he was arrested, police found a folding knife on him.
The 40-year-old former Wall Street trader originally wanted to be an economics professor.
Biologists are looking at what might account for the success of moose on the North Dakota prairie, while their Minnesota forest cousins are disappearing. One theory is that diseases carried by forest parasites are not found on the prairie.
A moose, far astray from its north woods Minnesota habitat, has been plodding around the southern part of the state. It was recently spotted near Winthrop, roughly 80 miles southwest of the Twin Cities, the Mankato Free Press reports. “Generally, it’s young bulls who do this," a DNR biologist said. "They just have a lot of wander in them.”
Officers seized more than 8,000 fruit and plant items that could be carrying pests or diseases that would hurt the area's agriculture industry.
A 2012 aerial survey last winter used 49 sample plots to estimate that there are about 4,200 living moose in Minnesota. The population declined 14 percent from last year. This decrease could impact Native American moose hunting in the region.
The Bemidji Pioneer says North Dakota was filling nearly as many barrels as the country of Ecuador was last month, and it may have already surpassed it. And experts say production will continue to ramp up -- fast.
Russell Ouart was deployed to Iraq in February 2008. Just a few months later, Ouart was involved in a mortar attack that left him with a traumatic brain injury. After three years of struggles and many misdiagnoses, the Fargo-native was finally honored and awarded a Purple Heart on Saturday.
Bullwinkle Moose hailed from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, but his species may become just a memory in the state. A DNR aerial survey shows northeastern Minnesota has already lost half its moose. Scientists don't know what's causing the animals to die off. The DNR doubts there's anything the state can do.
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