Environment
Wildersmith April 12
-Fred Smith is a native Iowan and retired high school athletic administrator now living on the upper Gunflint Trail with his wife Fran.
LSProject: The Life Salvelinus
-The Grand Portage Native Fish Hatchery has been producing and rearing coaster brook trout, a native Lake Superior fish, since 2007.
Wildersmith March 29
-Adios March…it’s almost April…no fooling! The way month three has flown by makes me wonder if there isn’t some way we could slow life down.
Wildersmith April 5
-The upper Gunflint Territory seemed headed toward a lamb-like end to March. We were teased with a couple swell early spring days, then came Easter Sunday.
Wildersmith March 22
-‘Twas the days before spring, and all through the woods, the critters were stirring in shivering wonderment.
Points North: Should the Boundary Waters Be a Wolf Sanctuary?
-Should Minnesota establish a wolf sanctuary, where hunting and trapping of the species is not allowed? Recently, the eminent wolf biologist Dr. L.
Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre on his third attempt at Denali & his recently published memoir, "Life on Ice"
-Buck chatted Mar. 8 with explorer Lonnie Dupre, recently back from his third unsuccessful attempt to summit Denali solo in January. Lonnie talks about what went wrong, what he might do differently on a fourth try, and more. His memoir, "Life on Ice," is up for a MN Book Award and a NE Minnesota Book Award.
Northern Sky: Jupiter, Saturn & Comet PanSTARRS
-Deane Morrison is a science writer at the University of Minnesota, where she authors the Minnesota Starwatch column.
Wildersmith March 8
-Whew, a week of March has come and gone already. Our semi-winter continues in the upper Gunflint.
Points North: Will Water Management Influence Future Farm Policy?
-News reports from the Pheasant Fest show held in Minneapolis during February suggest the best days of pheasant and duck hunting in the upper Midwest are behind us.