Nature Page & Night Sky
Minnesota Mixed Bag: Minnesota to host National Wildlife Federation’s 2025 annual meeting
Staff and News Reports
July 17, 2024
Minnesota has been selected to host the National Wildlife Federation’s annual meeting in June 2025. The annual meeting brings together representatives from the group’s 52 affiliate state and territorial organizations to discuss and celebrate natural
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency seeks comments on plan to curb pollution in state waters
Tori McCormick
July 17, 2024
State conservation and environmental groups – including Minnesota Trout Unlimited – are encouraging the public to comment on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s proposed changes to two feedlot permit rules designed to reduce nitrate pollution
Minnesota DNR plans to sell 80,000 school trust acres in the Boundary Waters to U.S. Forest Service
Tim Spielman
July 17, 2024
The Minnesota DNR announced last week a plan in which the agency would sell more than 80,000 acres of state-owned school trust lands within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the U.S. Forest Service,
Construction of carp barrier closer to reality at Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plains River in Illinois
Staff Report
July 17, 2024
Earlier this month Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that Michigan signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Illinois to cosponsor the construction of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project.
This milestone agreement
Habitat diversity draws bird watchers, hunters to Iowa’s Copeland Bend Wildlife Area
DNR Report
July 16, 2024
Forty miles south of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River is the 3,500-plus-acre Copeland Bend Wildlife Area, an expansive mix of grasslands and high-quality wetlands constructed after the extensive flooding in 2011, when the
Michigan Mixed Bag: Nearly 100 parcels of DNR-managed land available via online auction
Staff and News Reports
July 16, 2024
Lake frontage, river frontage and vacant, forested acreage surrounded by private ownership are some of the parcels available in the Michigan DNR’s next round of surplus land auctions in August and September. The DNR is
Plans moving forward on Pennsylvania’s three new state parks
Mark Nale
July 16, 2024
Plans are moving forward on Pennsylvania’s three newly created state parks. The first new infrastructure is expected to be built in 2025.
“All of this takes time,” said Wesley Robinson, Department of Conservation and
Registration open for women’s outdoor weekend planned for September in Ohio
DNR Report
July 15, 2024
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) is opening registration for the 10th annual Ohio Women’s Outdoor Adventure weekend. The three-day event is set to take place at Mohican State Park Lodge and Conference Center from Sept. 20-22.<br
Ohio’s spring survey shows bald eagles thriving in the state
DNR Report
July 15, 2024
The bald eagle, a symbol of our nation, is doing well in the Buckeye State. The 2024 annual spring survey showed a robust estimate of 841 active eagle nests, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR)
