One of former Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz’s last acts was to birth a new strategic plan to guide the Department ...

The Department of Natural Resources has other mandates for its millions of acres but also has a recreation plan. And a $9 million budget shortfall to deal with.

The Department of Natural Resources is proposing to issue more elk hunting permits in 2025, including some for cow elk in the ...

The creation of a management plan to expand Minnesota’s elk herds is moving forward. The current elk herds of northwest Minnesota may have some of the herd picked up and moved to northeast Minnesota ...

A grand plan to reintroduce wild elk to northeastern Minnesota will be delayed at least another year after organizers hit a pair of stumbling blocks, state and tribal officials confirmed this week.

The creation of a management plan to expand Minnesota’s elk herds is moving forward. The current elk herds of northwest Minnesota may have some of the herd picked up and moved to northeast ...

Red Lake Nation Legal Counsel Joe Plumer said tribal council members unanimously passed a resolution in opposition to the joint project.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is teaming with the University of Minnesota for a new study on the elk ...

Biologists have skied into Big Prairie and will attempt to trap and collar the elk, according to Neil Anderson, Region 1 wildlife manager. The South Fork has traditionally been home to a herd of ...

To wit: a disease or other natural event could wipe out all the elk in northwestern Minnesota. A second herd in Carlton County would prevent such an environmental catastrophe. I have hunting land ...

"Hunt period two is focused within the elk management area to manage the overall herd numbers." There are 100 licenses issued for Hunt Period 1: 30 any-elk licenses and 70 antlerless-only licenses.