Recreation
Lower alcohol levels for snowmobilers advances safety efforts
A new law lowered the maximum blood alcohol content allowed for snowmobile drivers from .1 percent to .08 percent.
Grassland birds hold stock in the future of biofuels
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Birds stand to gain valuable grassland habitat if the appetite to balance conservation and biofuel production continues gaining support in scientific circles.
Land
Fur trade a suspect in Minnesota monument mercury contamination
How long does pollution linger? At Minnesota’s Grand Portage National Monument, high levels of toxic mercury may date back to the 1700s.
Wildlife
Court upholds Minnesota tribal fishing rights
Defendants describe use of secretly recorded conversations, mobile tracking devices, interrogations, undercover surveillance as techniques more familiar to drug traffickers than to fishermen.