Meet Duluth’s outdoors czar
A month and a half into his role as the unofficial Duluth outdoors czar, [Hansi] Johnson is spending busy days working with groups of bikers, hikers, skiers, climbers, paddlers and other active outdoors clubs — locally and nationally — to try to preserve and grow the city’s natural recreation assets.
Ashland to be featured in national commercial
Amber Mullen, Ashland Daily Press:
Television viewers across the nation will soon know the town of Ashland as a considerate community with rich ties to people, history and a place on a big lake thanks to a new Cenex Harvest States Inc. (CHS) commercial.
Lake levels climb as leaves fall
Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press:
As leaves are falling, the deepest of the Great Lakes' water levels are rising. And that almost never happens.
Nice story on an unusual phenomenon.
We’ll quibble with one of the conclusions, though. According to data analyzed by Jay Austin from the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Large Lakes Observatory, a cool summer doesn’t seem to influence the following winter. And since the article was published, Lake Superior’s surface temperature has climbed back to its 1992-2013 average.
+ The Times Herald reports that researchers “found no evidence of new wolf pups during their summer stay on the island.” Rolf Peterson, John Vucetich and team will know more after their upcoming winter study, when it’s easier to spot the island’s remaining handful of wolves.
+ Minnesota photographer Paul Sundberg captured the late-season color and encountered a few forest inhabitants, too.
+ Kim Eggleston, writing for U.P. Second Wave: “Students build underwater robots to keep an eye on the Great Lakes.”
+ CBC News: “Thunder Bay farmers to harvest community crop for world’s hungry.”
+ Associated Press: “Future of U.P. energy to be focus of panel discussion.”