A northwest Minnesota lawmaker concedes he might not be popular with elk proponents for legislation that limits the Department of Natural Resources in its ability to expand elk herds in the state but ...

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 ...

Dec. 23—ST. PAUL — After canceling last winter's aerial elk surveys because of lack of snow, the Department of Natural Resources on Monday, Dec. 23, said it is on track to survey the northwest ...

ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is holding an in-person meeting on northwest elk management next month in Thief River Falls to begin work on developing a legislatively ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will conduct its annual aerial elk surveys in the coming weeks in northwestern Minnesota and on the border with Manitoba, information that will be used to ...

Farmers, hunters and members of Indigenous Tribes gathered Thursday night to discuss plans for an ambitious five-year plan to restore elk populations in northern Minnesota. During the meeting there ...

Brad Penas had never hunted elk and had never seen one in the part of northwest Minnesota where he hunts deer. So, when Penas, 45, of Moorhead, Minn., received notification this summer that he’d drawn ...

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.