Endangered mussels reproducing in Minnesota's Cedar River for first time in decades
The black sandshell and mucket mussels have been thriving since being reintroduced by the DNR in 2019.
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The black sandshell and mucket mussels have been thriving since being reintroduced by the DNR in 2019.
Wilderness Inquiry program offers underserved populations a fun, user-friendly gateway to public lands and waterways via hands-on experiences.
Everyone should want to be like Mike A great idea for a profile turned into a better idea for a profile when Tim Ruzek kept name-dropping his uncle. 5:30 am, May 6, 2021 × Story ideas come from the oddest places. A few years back, we at the Post Bulletin would do these stories where we'd write features on people who had recently died. You see, we'd read our own obituary pages, and if someone's obituary seemed interesting – and the obit made it sound like there was more to the story – we'd start tracking down family and friends of the deceased and write a more compl...
Austin Lions clubs to host pancake fundraiser Saturday; state offers rental assistance program.
A gas manufacturing plant that closed in the 1930s left pollution that lasted to 2020. 5:28 pm, Dec. 16, 2020 × AUSTIN — A prairie is blooming on a former hazardous waste site in Austin. The gas manufacturing plant in Austin next to the Cedar River closed more than 85 years ago, but its environmental impact is still ongoing. However, this year, the site where it sat no longer looks like a hazardous waste site. As recent as 2017, petroleum products left over from Austin Gas Co. were still seeping into the river from the river bed. Volunteers cleaning up litter from the river that ...