The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is offering four elk licenses this year — down from 10 in 2024 — and the tags will be limited to the Caribou-Vita area of northeast Kittson County, the ...

The DNR said in a press release Tuesday there are three herds of elk in northwest Minnesota: the Grygla, Kittson Central and ...

There are currently three recognized herds in northwest Minnesota: Grygla, Kittson Central and Caribou-Vita. The Grygla area ...

Before the early 1900s, elk inhabited most of Minnesota. Their territory shriveled due to settlement, overharvest and the ...

The elk will then be monitored for 30 months. According to Eric Michel, a research scientist for the DNR in Madelia, Minnesota, the 2016 study – the first of its kind on elk in the state ...

The Minnesota DNR is working to support the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to restore elk to the Fond du Lac Reservation and surrounding area, including the 1854 Ceded Territory.

DNR staff will survey the Kittson County and Grygla elk herds and the border elk herd in both Minnesota and Manitoba. "We currently have sufficient snow cover to start our elk surveys," Doug ...

A male elk stands in a field. The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has submitted a formal proposal to the Minnesota DNR to move up to 150 elk from the northwestern corner of the state ...

Elk stand watch in northwest Minnesota in this undated photo ... the Caribou-Vita area in northeast Kittson County. The DNR will not offer any tags for the Kittson Central herd near Lancaster ...