Desperate bait dealers turn to DNR to address minnow shortage
The agency is exploring ways to lift harvest barriers for trappers who keep losing access to minnow ponds.
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The agency is exploring ways to lift harvest barriers for trappers who keep losing access to minnow ponds.
This is a significant natural resources issue of great importance to state anglers. Here’s hoping this issue can be resolved in a timely manner and we can avoid making this yet another partisan political issue, or an anti-tribal issue.
The murmurs have transformed into open conversation among people who work and live around Upper Red about the “what-ifs” of a sustained boundary challenge by the Red Lake Nation.
Community watches closely because the stakes are high, but there's a realization that any challenge would take years to unfold.
The Red Lake Nation's natural resources director says that leaders want to right a historical wrong