The investigation to determine who shot the mother bear is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call the Turn in Poachers (TIP) hotline at (800) 652-9093 or #TIP on a cellphone.
The Red Lake Nation in March announced that it will offer 20 tribal elk tags in northwest Minnesota this year 鈥� double the number offered last year 鈥� for a season that will begin Sept. 15.
The eastern spruce budworm is a native insect that munches on balsam fir, leaving some 1,100 square miles of trees defoliated or dead last year, the most in the region since 1961.
The story about the Paul M. Thiede Fire Tower Park is part of a series called Lakes Country Treasures, which takes readers down the roads and to some of the most unique must-see gems of Minnesota's lakes country.
The fire spread quickly due to the gusty winds on Friday afternoon, and damaged around 70 acres of forest land and timber roughly half a mile south of Pete鈥檚 Place West along the Soo Line Trail.
According to preliminary results from a winter creel survey conducted by the Minnesota DNR, anglers logged just over 2 million hours of fishing pressure on the big lake during the winter of 2024-25.
Minnesota has 11,842 lakes that are 10 or more acres in size, 4,500 of which are considered fishing lakes. There are more than 16,000 miles of fishable rivers and streams.
