ON LAKE VERMILION, NEAR COOK -- It's 10 below zero on New Year's Day, and Tom Yankowiak of Cook has appointments to keep with 15 beaver huts. Yankowiak is near one of those lodges now, chipping ...

CO (Conservation Officer) Andrew Ladzinski (Pine River) assisted another CO in releasing a bear caught in a beaver trap. He also attended training and patrolled his station for trapping, turkey ...

It’s hard to believe that beavers, the largest rodents in North America, were once on the brink of extinction after mountain men traversed across our undeveloped nation in search of new land and ...

BARNUM -- With a cluster of rapt young boys looking up at him, Shawn Johnson was talking about the time he got a finger caught in a wolf trap. He held up a couple of traps much smaller than a wolf ...

CO Tony Flerlage (Crosby) checked spring beaver trappers now that the water is flowing again. The turkey season started slowly due to the cold. He monitored closed forest roads and attended training ...