Thief River Falls meeting highlights elk management views in northwest Minnesota

Thief River Falls meeting highlights elk management views in northwest Minnesota

Source: echopress

9/13/2024

The DNR is looking to grow the Kittson Central herd near Lancaster to 98 elk, an increase of about 30%, said Kelsie LaSharr, elk coordinator for the DNR’s Big Game Program.
hange is on the horizon for elk management in northwest Minnesota, and a panel discussion here Tuesday evening, Sept. 10, put some of the challenges to those changes into perspective.

First, a bit of background.

In 2016, the Legislature passed a bill that only allowed the Department of Natural Resources to grow the state’s three elk herds – two in Kittson County and one near Grygla – if payments to ag producers for damage caused by those elk didn’t increase for at least two years.

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