The Rochester City Council wisely passed a ban on exotic wild animal performances four years ago, and it’s continuing to pay off and make a difference. Last week the Carden Circus put on a very entertaining sold-out show at Graham Arena without any exotic animal acts, despite featuring a performing elephant on their event poster.
Minnesota’s gray wolves are one of our greatest wildlife treasures. We’re the only state in the “Lower 48” that has always had a viable native wolf population. We’re the model for good wolf management – so far. But we need to take action now to keep it that way.
ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Minnesota court has ruled an environmental review will not be necessary for a developer to build homes on a Great Blue Heron nesting site in Olmsted
The local group "Save the Rookery" sued International Properties LLC to prevent it from developing land where blue herons nest and breed, but the group says it appears the owners are proceeding with development anyway.