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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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