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Infrequently Asked Fair Questions: What happens to the DNR fish after the State Fair is over?

Infrequently Asked Fair Questions: What happens to the DNR fish after the State Fair is over?

Each year the Minnesota State Fair stocks a pond full of fish at the Minnesota State Fair. But what happens to the fish after the fair is done? MPR News reporter Tim Nelson set out to reel in the answer.
by Tim Nelson

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Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

In his new book “Life on the Mississippi,” author Rinker Buck writes about floating to New Orleans in a wooden flat boat from a bygone era. MPR News guest host Chris Farrell explores Mississippi River history with Rinker and John Anfinson, retired superintendent of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.
by Chris Farrell and Maja Beckstrom

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Isle Royale wolf population surges after nearly dying off

Isle Royale wolf population surges after nearly dying off

The gray wolf population at Isle Royale National Park is healthy once more. Scientists reported Wednesday it has reached 28, only a few years after it had fallen to two. 
by The Associated Press

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Data show increasing insecticide levels in Minnesota deer

Data show increasing insecticide levels in Minnesota deer

A second year of testing by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources found increased levels of neonicotinoid insecticide in white-tailed deer.
by Dan Gunderson

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All trails back open after wildfire at Isle Royale National Park

All trails back open after wildfire at Isle Royale National Park

Officials at Isle Royale National Park reported Monday that all trails on the Lake Superior island are now back open, after crews fully contained a wildfire.
by Andrew Krueger

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Return of rare Ojibwe horse lifts spirits — but still needs help

Return of rare Ojibwe horse lifts spirits — but still needs help

A small farm outside River Falls, Wis., is raising a herd of rare and endangered Ojibwe horses, part of a grassroots effort to revive the rare breed that’s adapted to the forests along the Minnesota-Canada border.
by Dan Kraker

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Climate law could shrink price of Sherco solar project

Climate law could shrink price of Sherco solar project

Xcel Energy says tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act could lower the cost of building the 460-megawatt project next to its retiring coal plant in Becker by 20 percent.
by Kirsti Marohn

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On Wisconsin’s French Island, residents live with lingering ‘forever chemicals’

On Wisconsin’s French Island, residents live with lingering ‘forever chemicals’

Wisconsin’s lawsuit comes more than four years after Minnesota settled its landmark case against 3M over PFAS contamination. Since then, scientists and regulators have learned much more about how broad and pervasive the PFAS problem is.
by Kirsti Marohn

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