DULUTH — Driving along Haines Road on April 3, I noticed a great gray owl sitting in the snow. Great gray owls are creatures of the boreal forest and only occasionally are found this far south. I was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Action scene from the forest with owl. Flying Great Grey Owl, Strix nebulosa, above green spruce tree with dark forest in ...

The birds are here because of the unique bog habitat — a mix of large tamarack-spruce bogs interspersed with old hayfields, meadows, rivers, lakes and upland aspen and maple that these northern birds ...

Amy Anderson was rapt. She had spent about 30 minutes observing and photographing a great gray owl in Fremont County on a ...

Question: Near Duluth last week, I saw a very large white owl by the side of the road. It looked like the owl from Harry Potter. What was it, and why haven’t I seen one like it before in Minnesota?

It was 50 years ago this month that President Richard Nixon signed what would become one of the nation’s most far-reaching environmental laws: the Endangered Species Act. The act was intended to ...