PARK RIVER, N.D. - Wayne Laaveg lives in the house his grandparents built in 1926. The sturdy, white, two-story farmhouse is nestled snugly under sheltering trees in the middle of Walsh County, ...

HAZEN, N.D. -- Dwight Grosz would say he is in the "farming" business. He raises his elks -- the bulls, the cows, the calves -- much as a rancher might. But from a marketing standpoint, Grosz is in ...

WEST BURLINGTON — A group of about half-a-dozen elk bulls approached the cab of the utility vehicle and seated trailer as it entered their pasture alongside U.S. 34 just outside of West Burlington. As ...

BLOMKEST, Minn. -Scott Groen describes his elk operation as a hobby that became a full-time venture. It's not as if he didn't have enough to do when he purchased his first elk in the mid 1990s. The ...

GNESEN TOWNSHIP — Several months after installing a one-year moratorium on growth in deer farms and their ilk, the St. Louis County Board moved Tuesday toward a permanent ban on captive deer, elk and ...

Perched on my bookcase is a photo of me and the late Norman Strung that was taken in 1973. We are sitting in the sunlight on the deck of his cabin. Prior to this, we had been hunting elk for two solid ...

It's a brisk Monday at the "Krantz Ranch" hunting camp up here in the boonies of northwest Minnesota, and a half-dozen or so members of the crew are gathered back at the deer shack for a midday break.