New uses for dead ash, fir and tamarack trees could help restore Minnesota s forests UMD researchers alter properties of undesired woods threatened by pests. January 1, 2021 7:51pm Text size Copy shortlink:
One invasive beetle is ready to devour just about every ash tree left in Minnesota s woods. A caterpillar has killed more than 200,000 acres worth of balsam fir trees in just the last year. Another beetle, a native in the midst of a population boom, has already destroyed about half of the state s tamaracks.
Add it all up and pest outbreaks have left Minnesota with quite a lot of dead trees, useless lumber and dried-out and wasted stands, which, if left to rot, will become one large fire hazard.
Bethanne Patrick Recommends Some Under-the-Radar Must-Reads
December 29, 2020
Everyone else has published their year-end lists of The Best, Our Favorites, Top 10, and so forth (that includes me individually and Lit Hub editorially, too). Why shouldn’t we gather the Best from 2020’s Books You May Have Missed? Choosing from the fifty-odd titles means that these ten are really the cream of a much bigger crop. A few have already gathered awards (
High as the Waters Rise,
Alligator), a few remain sleeper hits (
Greenwood,
The Comeback), while others just sleep. Wake up, readers, and check out these amazing books by a diverse group of authors from around the world.
Interim director Joe Eickman has led UWS officers through several recent changes. Written By: Maria Lockwood | ×
Interim director of public safety at UW-Superior, Joe Eickman, talks about transitioning to his new position Monday, Dec. 21, at the Yellowjacket Union on the UWS campus. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
For a decade, Joe Eickman was the new guy in the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s campus safety office, and the only police officer other than former director Gary Gulbrandson.
But that changed Monday, Dec. 21, when the University of Wisconsin-Superior swore in six police officers and Eickman. The move marks a shift in campus safety from security officers to police officers.
We Three Kings premiere
Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial presentation of “ … And They Lynched Him on a Tree” by William Grant Still and the world premiere of Rudy Perrault’s “We Three Kings.” I was unfamiliar with this specific work by Still as it is a choral work, but what I learned about it and how significant a work it is makes me want to hear it again and again! I really wish it were performed more regularly.
On the same program was a work by my UMD colleague Jean Perrault. This work is a premiere for the memorial event, the use of extremes and dissonance really captures for me the pain and discord. Thankful music could connect the past and present.
Drinking from a firehose: The media and politics in 2020
It s a fine line, but when Forum News Service talked with a number of sources to understand where things stood with the media, they said holding institutions and people accountable still mattered. 9:00 am, Dec. 27, 2020 ×
The media risers overlooking President Trump supporters at Trump s rally at the Duluth International Airport on Sept. 30, 2020. (Samantha Erkkila / serkkila@duluthnews.com)
DULUTH President Donald Trump was bound for Duluth.
And when he arrived Sept. 30, Samantha Erkkila was there as a multimedia producer, a job that sometimes finds her creating videos of news events for the Duluth News Tribune.