Minnesota's Prairie Lakes are strangely quiet since summer inhabitants have left early. It's too bad. October provides a soul-restoring peacefulness, whether one's just hiking, fishing, viewing fall ...

SENEY, MICHIGAN - ABJ, the world’s oldest common male loon, touched down in the Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Northern Michigan this past weekend, researchers announced. The return of this beloved ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. A migratory diver of the loon family, the common loon (Gavia immer) has been important to people living in the Great ...

Jul. 30—Around the early 1980s, lakes in Montana began buzzing with the increasing noise of boats and motorized personal watercraft. While people were having fun in the sun, they were unknowingly ...

Q: A group of eight loons, all appearing to be adults, suddenly showed up in late July at our lake in north central Minnesota. They were swimming in a close-knit group, and we’ve never seen anything ...

MINNESOTA, USA — "Imagine now, a clear summer evening in the north woods. Above you, the bands of the Milky Way framed by the dark spindly boughs of spruce and fir. And cutting though the stillness ...