The growing brewery scene on Lake Superior’s shores has sparked another boom, too. “The craft beer groupies even have a name for it: Farm to foam,” reports the Duluth News Tribune.
+ Cognition Brewing Company will open in Ishpeming, Michigan, next year. U.P. Second Wave has an early look.
"DO NOT FEED THE WOLVES"
Dan Kraker, for Minnesota Public Radio:
In at least two locations in northeast Minnesota, people are feeding wolf pups -- easy meals that could have very negative consequences.
The DNR fears that, once habituated to humans, the pups won't learn to survive on their own.
+ The Minnesota DNR has updated its list of endangered, threatened and special-concern species for the first time since 1996. Among those off the list: the gray wolf, bald eagle and snapping turtle. New: the moose, northern goshawk and boreal owl.
+ Mark Torregrossa, for MLive.com: “Lake Superior's water level has increased rapidly the last few months. Now Lake Superior will outflow more water into Lake Michigan-Huron.”
+ The Mining Gazette previews this weekend's Porcupine Mountains Music Festival.
+ Scenes for a Hollywood action movie will be filmed on Minnesota’s Iron Range and North Shore in September. Producers will have a casting call on Saturday in Eveleth, according to KBJR.
+ Students helped clean up two of Marquette’s popular summer spots, reports the Mining Journal.
+ The Duluth News Tribune: “From Duluth harbor muck, a new habitat emerges.”
Weekend Picks
Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival in Superior, Wisconsin. Through Saturday.
Porcupine Mountains Music Festival in Ontonagon, Michigan. Through Sunday.
Searchmont Music Festival in Searchmont, Ontario. Through Sunday.
Ribfest in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Through Sunday.