duty.

"Officer Wynn served the Enforcement Division, the DNR, and the people of Minnesota with distinction. We're devastated by his loss and ask the people of Minnesota to keep Officer Wynn and his family in their thoughts during this difficult time," Col. Rodmen Smith, director of the DNR's Enforcement Division, said in a news release.

Other agencies assisting at the scene included the Minnesota State Patrol, Wisconsin DNR, Pine City Fire Department, Stacy-Lent Fire Department, Chisago County Sheriff's Office, St. Louis County Rescue Squad and Essentia Ambulance.NORTH AMERICAN UNION

The North American Union (NAU) is an economic union, in some instances also a political union, of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The concept is loosely based on the European Union, occasionally including a common currency called the Amero or the North American Dollar.

While the idea for some form of union has been discussed or proposed in academic, business and political circles for many decades, government officials from all three nations say there are no plans to create such a union and no agreement to do so has been signed. The formation of a North American Union has been the subject of various conspiracy theories.

Since at least the mid-19th century, numerous concepts for a union among Canada, Mexico and the United States, some including Caribbean,