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Chef creates meals featuring invasive Asian carp

Chef creates meals featuring invasive Asian carp

A Wisconsin chef is planning an "invasivore" menu including Carp Cakes, Smoked Carp Steak and Carp Napoleon, featuring a few invasive Asian carp species that threaten to breach the Great Lakes.

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Minn. couple helps secure habitat for rattlesnakes

Minn. couple helps secure habitat for rattlesnakes

Ken and Terry Visger recently agreed to an easement that will help conserve the bluff prairie habitat for rattlesnakes in the hills hat surround his farm near La Crescent in southeastern Minnesota.

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Ethanol gets a victory with approval of E15 blend

Ethanol gets a victory with approval of E15 blend

Nearly two-thirds of drivers could have more corn-based ethanol in their fuel tanks under an Environmental Protection Agency decision Friday.
by Mark Steil

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Minn. trumpeter swan population keeps growing

A statewide aerial survey finds Minnesota's trumpeter swan population more than doubled in the last five years.

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Group says some Legacy money being spent inefficiently

An audit by the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy finds weaknesses in some water clean-up projects paid for with money from the outdoors legacy amendment.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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DNR delay puts Mississippi River section in limbo

The Department of Natural Resources' authority over a big portion the Mississippi River in the state has expired after the DNR missed a deadline for establishing new rules on what's called the Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area.
by Tom Crann

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St. Paul unveils electric fleet vehicle, charging stations

The city of St. Paul, Mayor Chris Coleman and Gov. Mark Dayton unveiled an all-electric fleet vehicle on Tuesday, believed to be the first of its kind in the state.
by Laura Yuen

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Growth of deer in Minn. cities divides residents

Growth of deer in Minn. cities divides residents

The state's greatest concentrations of deer are in the Twin Cities metro area and a part of southeastern Minnesota. And a growing number of cities are fighting back, adding bowhunting seasons and hiring slay-for-pay deer killers.

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Environmental groups file suit over Polymet loan

Five Minnesota conservation groups are suing the Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation Board to reverse a loan to PolyMet Mining.
by Bob Kelleher

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