Brief disconnection leaves me feeling like a winner
Mike Christopherson
Maybe some of my motivations were less than noble. Since I’ve decided to leave the Crookston Times at the end of this month, maybe I was letting a bit of “short-timer’s syndrome” worm its way into my brain.
The truth may never be fully realized when it comes to figuring out what altered my vacation packing plan for the first time in my memory, dating back to my more than two decades at this newspaper. But this still happened: I left my laptop computer behind. Not accidentally. On purpose.
Keith Vandervort
ELY – U.S. Forest Service crews used the Ely Airport for a helicopter training session last Friday as the trainees learned and refreshed their skills in working with rotary aircraft while fighting wildfires in the North Country.
Eric Holzem, USFS Helitack supervisor for District 9, including the Kawishiwi District, oversaw the training as eight students on the ground performed training drills in cargo transport via external load.
“The skills are needed for transport into and out of remote sites for fire suppression, or building projects in areas that are hard to reach any other way,” he said
Materials were lowered to the ground by tether from a helicopter hovering overhead. A crew from Brainerd Helicopter Services, Inc., under contract with the USFS, was on hand last week and participated in reconnaissance and water suppression duties at the Rock Island Lake fire near Lake Two in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness east of Ely.
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Marshall Helmberger
ECHO TRAIL Clearing of trees and brush along this iconic roadway within the Superior National Forest is on a temporary hold while St. Louis County officials take stock of work done to date. Some border country residents have raised alarm over the impact to the scenic qualities of the road, which is a primary access route to a large swath of the western end of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
“We have no issue with brush clearing,” said Paul Schurke, of Ely, who along with a handful of others, met with Forest Service officials and St. Louis County Commissioner Paul McDonald last week to discuss their concerns. But, he said, the removal of hundreds of large pine and the prospect of additional pine removal, is concerning.
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