Pulling My Hair Out
I was pulling my hair out all day today because I couldn’t get my internet to work. It went out sometime after two o’clock yesterday and everything I tried wouldn’t get it working again. This morning I must have …
Burning Bans
As the snow piles melt away so do our opportunities for burning brush piles. We still have good snow cover on the ground but the snow will be gone quickly and the bare ground will once again appear. While burning bans …
Green Ham and Eggs?
I’m not sure if Dr. Suess would approve or not but it’s different than Green Eggs and Ham. This is the Ham Run Half-Marathon and 5k Fun Run going Green. Not in a moldy, old meat kind of way, …
Canoeing
I woke up this morning and the thermometer read 9 degrees. I went out to the vehicle and there was frost on the windshield. I drove to meet the bus and snowbanks lined the road. I got home and looked …
Smoke in the Air
A plume of smoke could be seen above Gunflint lake from miles away yesterday. As we drove closer and closer we feared the worst as we could tell the plume was directly above Gunflint Pines Resort and Campground. We …
The Trestle
I wonder what it would have been like to travel on a train from Thunder Bay, Canada to Gunflint Lake? Passing by lakes underneath towering pines through a vast wilderness for over 80 miles sounds like a great …
Weather Forecast
By reading the weather forecast one would think it was January or February. The weather predictions just don’t seem possible for April. UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 835 PM CDT THU APR 10 2008 …BLIZZARD CONDITIONS EXPECTED NEAR …
Detained at Pigeon River Border
It started out like a normal day… The sun rose, the sky was blue and life was good. What could have been an opportunity to welcome U.S. citizens into Canada quickly turned sour. This is a typical scenario that replays itself …
Something Smells Fishy
Dead fish after ice-out likely result of ‘winterkill’ (April 8, 2008) The retreat of ice from Minnesota’s shorelines may soon leave a grim reminder of winter’s effects around some ponds and lakes. That is according to the Minnesota Department …
Orphans in the Wild
DNR QUESTION OF THE WEEK – April 8 Q: Spring is the time when wildlife babies are born. What should people do if they find what appears to be an abandoned wildlife baby, or see a baby bird that fell …