The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has completed a 10-year effort to provide much more accurate maps of Minnesota’s wetlands. The update of the state’s National Wetlands Inventory used new ...

ST.PAUL - Before Minnesota's 2015 waterfowl hunting season began Saturday, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency released two reports on the health of wetlands around the state. The health of a ...

MINNEAPOLIS —Despite recent federal protection reductions, the Department of Natural Resources says wetlands are expanding in Minnesota. A new report tracking gains from 2006 to 2020 shows we the ...

MINNEAPOLIS – A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling will impact how the EPA protects certain wetlands. Critics say that decision will strip protections from tens of millions of acres across the nation.

There are two kinds of wetlands in Minnesota. There are the really great ones in the northeast part of the state, mostly untouched by humans and home to diverse plants and wildlife. And then there are ...

Marshes were drained and replaced by shallow, lifeless ponds. Old floodplain forests were cut down with no plan for them to grow back. Swamps and bogs were permanently drowned by open water. Minnesota ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed legislation this week that strengthens protection for some Minnesota wetlands, reducing the minimum size of wetlands that require state regulation. The law ...

WASHINGTON – One spring afternoon in 2015, biologist Thomas Gable followed signals from a gray wolf’s GPS tracking collar to a small stream in Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park. There he found a ...

For sale: One acre of a pond near Twig, ringed with cattails and home to dragonflies, to be preserved as wetland in perpetuity. Asking price: $52,000. Sold: Hundreds of similar acres each year to ...