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Trump order makes mining a top priority for federal lands, potentially restarting push near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters

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A March 20 executive order signed by President Donald Trump establishes mining of minerals as the highest-priority use of federal lands, and that could eventually lead to mining operations within federal wilderness areas and even national parks.
Combined with Trump’s Jan. 20 order declaring a national energy emergency, his latest order appears to set the stage for an unprecedented push to advance mining projects on federal lands with only perfunctory environmental review.

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Superior National Forest’s bear order appears to be reducing conflicts

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This past year in northern Minnesota brought plenty of weather extremes, from a record mild winter to record June rain, followed by a worsening drought. Such conditions made it a tough one for the region’s bear population, which relies heavily on natural foods that rarely produce well under extreme conditions.
The limited natural foods prompted a sharp increase in bear nuisance reports across northern Minnesota – except for within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, where a new wilderness-wide order designed to reduce human-bear interactions may have helped keep this longstanding problem in check.

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Commentary: North Dakota study shows effects of winter without wolves on whitetails

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The Timberjay has received considerable comment this fall in response to a two-part series examining the causes of the decline in the deer population in our (northeastern Minnesota) region. I was surprised that it was mostly positive, because I recognized that the stories I wrote were challenging some pretty deeply-entrenched views.
The one major factor that I did not address in the series was the effect of winter on deer, which I believe indisputably is the single-most critical factor in white-tailed deer survival in our area.

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Minnesota exhibit in Ely takes viewers deep into Voyageurs wolf study

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Making scientific concepts and findings accessible to a general audience has long been a challenge for researchers. Most scientific journals have little readership outside academia, and the articles that appear in them are rarely written to be accessible to anyone outside a particular field of study.
The researchers involved with the Voyageurs Wolf Project in Minnesota have done far more than most in recent years to build broad public awareness of some of their novel findings about wolf behavior in and around Voyageurs National Park. And now they’re collaborating with the International Wolf Center and a graphic designer to present a new exhibit that provides a unique perspective on their ongoing studies.

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Legislative auditor to investigate after allegations Minnesota DNR misused funds for WMA timber harvest

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The Office of the Legislative Auditor, or OLA, has announced it will undertake what’s known as a “special review” to examine the Minnesota DNR’s alleged misuse of federal grant funds designed to benefit wildlife and their habitat.
The OLA informed DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen of the review in a March 1 letter that noted that the legislative auditor recently completed a preliminary assessment of the allegations.

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Commentary: For Minnesota’s Ash River, Voyageurs park, is cleanup plan worth the price?

Minnesota, Opinion /

The St. Louis County Board has thrown its backing to a state bonding request for a $24 million project to address a problem that supporters can’t show even exists.
At issue is a proposal by the Voyageurs National Park Clean Water Joint Powers Board, which goes by the cumbersome acronym VNPCWJPB, to build a centralized wastewater collection and treatment system to serve a total of 81 sites along the Ash River, a tributary to Lake Kabetogama.

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Commentary: So many mosquitoes! Is a lack of bats to blame for abundance in Minnesota?

Featured, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

A 2009 study by a pair of graduate students in Michigan may help to explain why everyone in a large swath of Minnesota seems to be complaining about the clouds of mosquitoes right now. Anyone who lives here in the north country, especially those of us who live in the woods, knows that early June is generally the peak of the mosquito season. They’re a fact of life, but I know I’m not the only one who has been surprised the past few years by what seems to be a particularly robust – occasionally shock-and awe-inspiring – mosquito population.

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