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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 Commissi...

ELY- When firefighters battled a wildfire that began May 17 near Bezhik Lake that burned 782 acres of forest, they were joined the next day by a partner that helped them communicate and coordinate …

ELY, MN (KDAL) - First responders in northern Minnesota are getting a boost in wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet expansion in the region ...

ELY - A fire in the Boundary Waters Area Canoe Wilderness, which initially sent smoke plumes into the skies, calmed to a smoldering blaze drifting with the wind on an overcast Thursday. “The intensity of the fire has been knocked down,” Superior National Forest spokesperson Tim Engrav told the Mesabi Tribune in a phone interview. “It’s not growing.” The blaze, named the Bezhik Fire, started on Monday. It burned beneath red and white pines across 10 acres in the La Croix District of the BWCAW, about 15 mile northwest of Ely. The fire spread to 950 acres and was at 10 p...

Boundary Waters blaze could be sign of busy wildfire season in northeast Minnesota The last big fire to sweep through the Boundary Waters was the Pagami Creek Fire, which burned about 100,000 acres 10 years ago this September. There hasn't been another large-scale fire since. Written By: Dan Kraker / MPR News | 6:23 am, May 21, 2021 × Smoke billowed from the Bezhik Lake fire in the BWCAW Tuesday afternoon. Light rain, higher humidity levels and cooler temperatures Wednesday and Thursday have helped firefighter efforts to slow the 950-acre blaze that burned to the Moose ...