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Statewide Blog

Snowy Owl #98

Snowy Owl #98

A longtime owl researcher in Duluth has banded more than 400 Snowy Owls over the past four decades to learn more about their movements.
by Dan Kraker

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Can a filter on a boat stop zebra mussels?

Can a filter on a boat stop zebra mussels?

Watershed district managers, lake association leaders and others attending a symposium on invasive species today learned about a new filter that has been shown to stop zebra and quagga mussels from spreading via ballast tanks in so-called “wake boats.” Big ballast tanks allow the boats to make waves suitable for wake boarding and water skiing. Read more →
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Mayo’s proton beam facility on track for 2015 opening

Mayo’s proton beam facility on track for 2015 opening

Crews have finished construction of Mayo Clinic’s Richard O. Jacobson Building in Rochester that will house one of the clinic’s two new proton beam cancer therapy centers. A second facility is also under construction in Phoenix. Mayo doctors and scientists will spend the next year and a half testing equipment and calibrating the pencil beam Read more →
by Elizabeth Baier

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Farewell to a famous ox

Farewell to a famous ox

Pum was a black and white Holstein ox who pulled a wooden-wheeled cart across the state in 2008 to celebrate the Minnesota Sesquicentennial.
by Dan Gunderson

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BWCA image by Duluth photographer headed to Smithsonian

BWCA image by Duluth photographer headed to Smithsonian

A fall moment on the North Kawishiwi River will be preserved in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s “Wilderness Forever” exhibit. The photo is one of 13 images added to the exhibit this year. A wilderness photograph created by Dawn LaPointe, a Duluth area resident, has been professionally juried into the “Wilderness Forever” exhibit Read more →
by Michael Olson

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Bemidji couple give kids a science boost

Bemidji couple give kids a science boost

Twenty years later the center hums with kids and parents as they make structures with wooden blocks, inflate a mini hot air balloon, talk into the echo tube among the more than forty activities and exhibits there.
by Dan Olson

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Does your family have a hazmat plan?

Does your family have a hazmat plan?

A lot of attention is focused right now on how well first responders are prepared for an oil train accident, given the significant increase in North Dakota Bakken crude traveling the rails. But Moorhead hazmat team director Chad Stangeland thinks people who live near railroads should also ask that question of themselves. Preparing for a Read more →
by Dan Gunderson

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Farm push for immigration reform

The debate over immigration reform is heating up in scores of Minnesota crop fields, livestock barns and farm homes. As Minnesota Milk Producers Association President Patrick Lunemann puts it, “we’re struggling to find labor.” Lunemann employs immigrants as part of the work force on his 700-cow dairy farm near the central Minnesota town of Clarissa. Read more →
by Mark Steil

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