Minnesota agriculture officials have a message to anyone taking down their Christmas tree: Do it properly to protect the ...

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is not to spread invasive species hiding in festive foliage, but instead disposing of ...

Besides its fragrance, the Minnesota native and keystone of our boreal forest remains a favorite for dense branching that can ...

PARKERS PRAIRIE, Minn. — Almost 60 years ago, Lowell Dittberner and Cynthia Singleton’s father bought acreage in Parkers Prairie, in west central Minnesota, for duck and deer hunting. Over the years, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Minnesota's summer drought may be felt in winters to come, when finding the perfect Christmas tree could be harder and more expensive. Seventy-five percent of Minnesota is in a ...

MINNESOTA, USA — The dry September is a far cry from the record rain the state had to start the summer and that has caused stress on Minnesota's trees. Experts say trees are having a difficult time ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Research shows over more than a century some common species of trees in Minnesota have slowly shifted northeast. While individual trees are not on the move, of course, the population ...

In 2017, 70-year-old Joseph Leon Edminster pleaded guilty to cutting off the tops of thousands of trees in Minnesota’s Chippewa National Forest.

Oak trees around Minnesota have suffered from bouts of heavy precipitation and drought — conditions that make them more vulnerable to two-lined chestnut borer, a beetle that eats the inner bark of oak ...

Cory Netland is a Department of Natural Resources area wildlife supervisor working out of New London, Minn. — not too far from where he grew up. Like the state’s other 80,000 or so pheasant hunters, ...