MINNEAPOLIS — States like Wisconsin, Michigan and Maine have been issuing eating advisories relating to contaminants in wild game, but Minnesota — where similar results have been found — has not.

While the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) provides guidelines for eating fish, it doesn’t have enough resources to consider other game.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s wildlife agency took in more than 160,000 requests to participate in its upcoming black bear hunt, the state’s first in a decade, but many appear to have been submitted by conservationists who plan to sit out the event.

With the hunt capped at 172 animals, an application’s chance of winning a tag to bag a bear ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesotans chasing a cavalcade of seasonal colors often parade at this time of year from the Twin Cities to Duluth and from there farther north along the Lake Superior shoreline. Alternatively they divert at Moose Lake or Cloquet and angle toward Grand Rapids or perhaps continue to Ely or International Falls.

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DENVER — The two elk hunters found dead last week in southern Colorado were killed by lightning, according to the Conejos County coroner.

Andrew Porter, 25, of Asheville, N.C., and Ian Stasko, 25, of Salt Lake City, went missing on a hunting trip near the Colorado-New Mexico border in the Rio Grande National Forest. They were last heard from ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Geoff Smith, a biologist with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC), unfurled a weighted seine and plunged it into the water last Monday at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge.

Smith and two other PFBC scientists dragged the net through the shallows of the Heinz impoundment, a sprawling wetland in Philly fed by Darby...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Carson Wentz might be the only quarterback in the NFL who tosses a football with his right arm but shoots a bow with his left.

Granted, very few archers sling a football for a living.

But the right-arm, left-arm switcheroo is a head-scratcher nevertheless, and prompts a question: Is the recently acquired Vikings backup ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Birds descend from the sky at dawn to take a break after their red-eye flight migrating south.

Where do they get breakfast and other meals to refuel for their journeys south, with some flying thousands of miles to reach their wintering grounds in South America?

During fall migration, Hays Woods, Pittsburgh's newest park, hosts ...Read more