Damage assessment to property, wildlife begins after flooding in Minnesota

An angler casting to carp on a paved street in Faribault. Kayakers paddling through Valleyfair, the popular amusement park in Shakopee in the shadow of the Minnesota River.
Dead deer fawns – likely drowned – located as part of a Minnesota DNR research project. Storied duck camps on Heron Lake swimming in flood water. Manure pits reportedly overflowing at large feedlots in southern Minnesota.
The early-summer deluge of rain and recent flooding across roughly half of Minnesota after multiple years of drought has provided some bizarre and heartbreaking scenes the past two weeks.

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