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An award-winning journalist with a passion for advocacy and the environment has joined the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as an information officer in the Parks and Trails Division.
The goal of the event is to expand on the current natural beauty throughout the City by adding native trees to Kyle’s parklands, says the department.
Copy shortlink: The Department of Natural Resources has rejected the latest plea from a citizens group to formally review alleged environmental threats from a proposed 764-mile back-roads driving route that the agency intends to open across northern Minnesota for four-wheel drive owners. The petitioners are concerned that the so-called Border to Border Touring Route will unduly escalate traffic of high-impact vehicles on natural surface roads that snake through remote forest lands amid pristine waters and sensitive wetlands. The group —Citizens for Sustainable Off-Ro...
A multimillion-dollar ATV trail building boom is trying to accommodate the tens of thousands of new off-road machines sold to Minnesotans.
The crowding trend didn’t extend to far northwest Minnesota and adjacent areas of northern Minnesota, Hopper said. The closure of the U.S.-Canada border to nonessential travel kept traditional Canadian visitors away, she said, and Gov. Tim Walz’s stay-at-home orders also discouraged people from traveling. While the pandemic isn’t over, there’s light at the end of the tunnel, and the appetite to get outdoors appears to be as strong as ever. For people seeking a less-crowded getaway, here are four off-the-beaten-path state parks worth exploring on that next road trip. Old Mill State Par...