The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds hunters to sign up for a firearms safety hunter education class now if they plan to hunt this fall. Hunters can not buy a hunting license in Minnesota and many other states unless they have completed the training...

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Officials from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Kittson County met Tuesday (July 11) to take steps to resolve a dispute over the use of ATVs on Beaches Lake Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in eastern Kittson County. Some local ATV riders want corridors through the WMA open to ATV use. ATVs are prohibited throughout Beaches Lake WMA except for deer retrieval during the regular firearms deer season...

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Ruby-throated hummingbirds are Minnesota's smallest bird. People enjoy attracting them with both sugar water feeders and by planting flowers to attract them to their yards. The DNR Nongame Wildlife Program is updating its list of the flower species and cultivars that attract hummingbirds – native or non-native. Each year there are new cultivars of garden flowers that prove attractive to hummingbirds, so the old list of hummingbird flowers that was published in the DNR's popular book "Landscaping for Wildlife" needs to be updated...

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Officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are asking birders and outdoor enthusiasts to be on the lookout this summer and report sighting of a rare bird species, the loggerhead shrike. According to Carrol Henderson, DNR Nongame Wildlife Program supervisor, the statewide population of shrikes is declining. Loggerhead shrikes were once found throughout much of the unforested area of the state. Today their numbers are very low. Recent surveys have located fewer than a couple dozen nests of this threatened bird in Minnesota...

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Hunters who wish to participate in a special youth deer hunt this fall may apply now wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold, or at the DNR License Center, 500 Lafayette Road, St. Paul. The deadline for applications is Friday, Aug. 18. Successful applicants will be notified in early September. There is no fee to apply, although successful applicants must purchase the appropriate deer hunting license prior to their hunt. The youth individual firearms and youth individual archery license, which cost only $14, are available to residents age 12 to 17...

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Minnesotans traveling north on Interstate 35 to cabins or favorite resorts in July may see red. That is not a prediction of the traffic situation, but a description of jack pine trees along the roadway...

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Hunters who wish to apply for one of 182 permits for the 2006 Minnesota prairie chicken season or for one of 4,290 permits for the fall turkey hunt must do so by July 28. Applications are available wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold, according to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR)...

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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will begin accepting applications on July 1 for the 2006 regular archery deer hunts at Camp Ripley near Little Falls. Hunters may pick from only one of two hunting seasons, Oct. 19-20 or Oct. 28-29. A total of 5,000 permits, 2,500 per two-day hunt, will be made available, which is more than a 10 percent increase over last year...

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Effective Dec. 31, 2006, the St. Croix and Nemadji state forests, both in Pine County, will be officially classified as "limited" for motorized access. The two forests were evaluated under 2003 legislation requiring the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to examine all state forests and determine where motorized recreation and access can be accommodated while conserving natural resources...

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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will offer 17 parcels of state land for sale to the public at oral auctions on July 26-27...

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Minnesota's breeding duck populations declined for the second consecutive year, according to results of the annual May waterfowl survey released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR)...

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Data collected by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed what many anglers already know - fishing has been very good this spring on Upper Red Lake and Mille Lacs Lake...

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CO Joe Stattelman (Detroit Lakes) encountered a man and his wife fishing. As Stattelman asked for the woman's fishing license she gave it to him and proceeded to cast her line back into the water narrowly missing his head. He then proceeded to...

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