WATSON — Minnesota can count more than 12,000 lakes within its boundaries, but it is home to only a tad more than 200 calcareous fens. They are one of the most rare and unique of landforms to be found ...

GARY, Minn. -- Farm developer Paul FitzSimmons had planned to be pouring concrete on a new hog farm in northwest Minnesota weeks ago. But he’s still waiting on a state permit that will allow him to ...

MANKATO, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Minnesota’s fourth Calcareous Fen Management Plan (CFMP), developed by ISG for a mining client, was recently approved by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ...

Tucked away in the massive environmental bill that the Legislature will send to Gov. Mark Dayton in coming days are a couple of tweaks to state irrigation law that could imperil a collection of ...

Seminary Fen, the State Scientific and Natural Area in Chanhassen, is listed to get $51,040 worth of wetland restoration, money that comes from a state grant program. The site still contains trees and ...

Cool water seeps into the ground. Small pools dot the green peatland along Chanhassen’s southern border. A creek meanders through the vegetation. Camouflaged, a young deer pauses for better hiding.

A workshop on calcareous fens, the state's rarest wetland, will be offered from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 18-19 at the Rochester Public Utilities building and at a local fen. The workshop is being offered ...

For nearly 30 years, Karl Bohn has been holding — and paying taxes on — a prime piece of land overlooking the Minnesota River in Savage, expecting that someday he could sell and cash in. Now, on the ...

Several varieties of moss are found in calcareous fens. A DNR employee collects some in a fen near Gary, Minn., on Sept. 21.