Outdoors

Polar Polers, Jan.

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District 5 - Eveleth areaTuesdayCO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls #1) reports cold weather is upon us, which helps with making ice, but the frigid conditions don’t make it nice to be outdoors.

Minnesota has had a net gain of approximately 43,000 acres of wetland in the period of 2006-2020 — that’s one of the key findings of the Wetland Status and Trends Monitoring Report released last week by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.The report also shows that most of the wetland gain was realized in the last six years of the 15-year (2006-2020) monitoring period.

Despite an unusually warm start to winter, a race known for its cold weather is set for the end of the month.The 20th annual Arrowhead 135 will take off with fireworks at 7 a.m.

A multi-country project pioneered by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will prepare for a possible chronic wasting disease spillover from deer or other cervids—members of the deer family—to humans or non-cervid farm animals.The chronic wasting disease, CWD, work is funded by the Minnesota Legislature, administered by the state Department of Natural Resources and led by CIDRAP, located at the University of Minnesota, and CWD Project Director Michael Osterholm and co-directors Jamie Umber and Cory Anderson.Minnesota Rep.

With Minnesota winters, there is perhaps no tool more important than the snow shovel.

Tim Watson’s gearing up for his eighth Black Woods Blizzard Tour Feb.

District 5 - Eveleth areaMondayCO Darrin Kittelson (International Falls #1) reports snowmobile enthusiasts welcomed recent snowfall.