Outdoors
Feathered beauties are Christmas presents for all seasons
Providing habitat can attract songbirds to your yard.
Local
MnDOT stopped painting bridge near Wabasha to save baby owls
Crews spotted five newborns nestled inside the steel structure on Oct. 5 and put part of the job on hold.
Outdoors
Staying put: Northern cardinal is one winter warrior
The bird, more than most, has come to symbolize wild bird feeding in Minnesota and elsewhere.
Outdoors
Review finds stewardship gaps in motorized trail project in Houston
There is no record of the DNR following federal environmental protocol early on in the development of a Driftless Area off-roading park in the southeastern Minnesota city.
Outdoors
Holiday on the wing: It's time to look, listen, crunch avian numbers
The annual Christmas Bird Count, ongoing until Jan. 5, is longstanding work in Minnesota and across the world. It's arguably as vital as ever.
Outdoors
Anderson: Morris, Minn., is still there — and the pheasants, too
A December hunt chills to the bone, with birds flying.
Outdoors
Anderson: An outdoor life, now passed, was more than just the hunt
Steve Grooms was an outdoor writer, a description that for him was too confining. He could have written about anything. But nature was the lens through which he saw the world.
Outdoors
From ice fishing's ramp-up to marking the solstice, a list of winter tales
Ice fishing, the winter solstice and a last chance for hunters who are up for braving the December chill make are among the outdoor themes as 2021 winds down.
Outdoors
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Marking the night and the daylight
Winter solstice, and the march toward longer days, arrives next week.
Outdoors
Anderson: Readers agree: NE Minnesota deer are scarce — or worse
Habitat is changing, but wolves get most of the blame for whitetail losses
Outdoors
Local
As winters warm, Minnesota lakes have lost about two weeks of ice coverage over last 50 years
Lakes are freezing later and thawing earlier.
Duluth
Duluth expects to get grant to create mountain bike fleet for area youth
Spirit Mountain is also poised to expand its cross-country ski and mountain bike offerings with a state grant.
Outdoors
More sparks but no fire in DNR's ongoing fight against CWD
There were surprising new cases, some good news and continued persistence of chronic wasting disease in southeast Minnesota.
Outdoors
A glide through Minnesota's deep Nordic skiing history is full of grit and moxie
Through people and place, a new book courses through an activity that has had a profound influence.
Outdoors
All life in Minnesota is adapting to the cold, mammals included
Deer are constant browsers, and they need to be this time of year.
Outdoors
'Cabin world' is all things, to regulars and visitors
A second home? Somehow near Aitkin feels like something more.
Outdoors
Trail cam captures 'fat' bear up North — and the imagination of viewers
The sighting of an oversized bear in far northern Minnesota is generating outsized interest on social media.
Outdoors
DNR drops plan to end CWD testing after another deer tests positive near Brainerd
Testing in the Brainerd area will continue for several more hunting seasons because a whitetail recently tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
Local
Minnesota's forests at risk as invasive jumping worms spread
The worms, which lay waste to soil, have spread to forests throughout the Twin Cities area.
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