Environment

A group calls on politicians to make the state's natural resources a priority that is equal in importance to education, health care and transportation. Envision Minnesota says it is focusing its attention on the 2006 gubernatorial candidates.

Members of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe are gearing up for a celebration. Beginning Saturday, tribal members will be able to legally fish for walleye for the first time since 1997.

People in Grand Marais are arguing about their harbor. Some want to rebuild the marina on a grander scale. Others say anything much bigger would destroy the cozy feeling of the waterfront.

Minnesota lawmakers announced they have reached an agreement on a plan to drastically reduce mercury emissions at the state's largest coal-fired power plants.

You might say scuba diving among barracuda and sharks is challenge enough. Longtime National Geographic photographer David Doubilet has spent most of life capturing beautiful images of wildlife under the waves.

The Minnesota prairie chicken population is growing, and Minnesota chickens are helping restore populations in other states.

National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg grew up on a prairie farm. Now he's started a foundation to preserve prairie land. A new show of his prairie photographs is on display in a Duluth gallery.

Some environmental and sporting groups are fuming over a last-minute vote in a House committee that has left their long sought-after outdoors funding in limbo.

Carrol Henderson of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is Mike Edgerly's guest for an Earth Day Midday program. How are the animals and birds faring on the planet?

Have kids given up playing outdoors in favor of X-Boxes, iPods and the World Wide Web?