By seeding patches of land with native prairie grasses and flowering plants, farmers can improve habitat for pollinators and harvest a bit of cash as well.
Minnesota takes drastic actions to protect the state's crown jewel fish, among them using sharpshooters to kill thousands of birds that eat the fish walleye feed on.
The Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women designated the court as a "mentor court" this fall. The county will receive grant money to train other locations over the next two years to develop similar programs.
It wasn't a great year for the shoreline wildlife of Lake of the Woods.
Flood waters from the saturated Rainy River watershed poured into the lake starting in June.