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Editor’s notebook: Covering the environment in 2014

MPR News Staff December 31, 2014, 10:36 AM Dec 31, 2014

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Water, copper-nickel mining and climate change were the top environmental topics for MPR News in 2014. Concerns about pipelines carrying crude oil, the decline in pollinators and the anniversary of the Wilderness Act that created the BWCA are also on the list. Read more →

Get Out There

50 years of memory making in the Boundary Waters

Martha Lueders September 15, 2014, 2:54 PM Sep 15, 2014

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Simplicity. That’s what the Boundary Waters has offered many. Read more →

Report examines affect of changing land use on rural economy

Dan Gunderson September 12, 2013, 1:55 PM Sep 12, 2013

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(Prairie Pothole Region outlined in blue. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey.) Land use in the Prairie Pothole Region of the upper Midwest has been shifting at an extraordinary rate in recent years, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey. Land enrolled in the Federal Conservation Reserve Program continues to decline at a rapid Read more →

Minnesota Sounds & Voices

Not easy being green

Dan Olson June 12, 2013, 11:40 AM Jun 12, 2013

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A robust frog and toad population is a good indicator of the health of our environment but their survival is constantly threatened by weather, habitat loss and disease. Read more →

Spring storms strand migrating loons in Wisconsin

Dan Kraker May 8, 2013, 7:01 AM May 8, 2013

Dozens of loons have been rescued in northern Wisconsin from roadsides, parking lots and fields, after record spring snowstorms interrupted their migration northward.

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Dayton defends his criticism of EPA at Duluth town hall

Dan Kraker March 21, 2013, 11:17 AM Mar 21, 2013

At a town hall in Duluth last night, Governor Mark Dayton defended a statement he made last week critical of the EPA, saying “one of the real problems we have with government right now is these overlapping layers of jurisdiction.”

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Lake Superior “smokes” in the frigid air

Dan Kraker January 24, 2013, 11:18 AM Jan 24, 2013

Thick wisps of steam have been rising from the surface of Lake Superior over the last several days of sub-zero temperatures. An explanation of what causes it, and why there’s not more ice, when the temperatures are so cold.

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Number of wolves killed in MN and WI show different approaches to hunt

Dan Kraker December 5, 2012, 4:57 PM Dec 5, 2012

Several weeks in to the inaugural managed hunt seasons in Minnesota and Wisconsin, hunters have killed about 300 wolves; about 200 in Minnesota. But with a much smaller wolf population in Wisconsin, hunters there have killed a higher percentage of the state’s wolves.

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