Voyageurs Wolf Project continues to break new ground on how wolves live, thrive, eat and die. 9:00 am, Feb. 9, 2021 ×
Voyageurs Wolf Project researchers Austin Homkes, left, and Thomas Gable inspect a site where a wolf had ambushed and ate a beaver in August 2019. The researchers this week published the first-ever peer-reviewed scientific paper on wolf-ambushing behavior and success. (Steve Kuchera / File / News Tribune)
Back in August 2019, a reporter and photographer followed Thomas Gable and Austin Homkes as the two wildlife researchers crawled on hands and knees, on an island in Voyageurs National Park, inspecting a site where a wolf had killed a beaver.
Returning to Minnesota, her writing is redefining what it means to be an outdoors woman
Grand Rapids native Ashley Bredemus quit her job in Florida and moved to the edge of the BWCAW, where she writes The Cabin Season blog. 7:10 am, Feb. 7, 2021 ×
Ashley Bredemus works at a computer in a cabin at Birchwood Wilderness Camp near the end of the Gunflint Trail. An engineer by training, Bredemus returned to Minnesota to run the summer boys camp with her dad. She s also developing a large social media presence as an outdoor influencer for women. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
ALONG THE SEA GULL RIVER It was 20 below zero on the morning Ashley Bredemus, her fiancé, Victor Pilon, and their very big dog, Arlo, walked across the frozen river to greet visitors at a parking lot a half-mile away.
Stories to inspire outdoor adventures
These Minnesotans discovered that adventure waits right out their door, and took advantage of it by recreating Eric Sevareid and Walter Port’s epic 2,200 mile paddle to Hudson Bay. The University of Minnesota Press has just released Natalie Warren’s account of her and Ann Raiho’s adventure as the first women to complete this rite of passage for modern paddlers. It follows Sean Bloomfield’s account of how he and Colton Witte made the trip in record time. 6:08 am, Feb. 6, 2021 ×
Natalie Warren in bow and Ann Raiho in the stern of their Langford Prospector canoe battle the Minnesota River current in downtown Granite Falls on June 17, 2011 on their journey to Hudson Bay.
St. Louis County Board joins pro-mining chorus with resolution supporting copper-nickel projects
The move Tuesday came after Iron Range lawmakers urged the establishment of a working relationship with members of President Joe Biden s cabinet. 9:09 am, Feb. 3, 2021 ×
PolyMet is reusing and reclaiming the former LTV Steel Mining site near Hoyt Lakes. (Photo courtesy of PolyMet Mining)
Fears that the state and federal governments may disrupt progress toward copper-nickel mining in Northeastern Minnesota are causing the area s elected officials to react.
Members of the Legislature’s Iron Range Delegation wrote a letter last week to President Joe Biden’s secretaries-designate of the Interior and Agriculture asking them to work closely with the state legislators.