Points North
Points North: Sale of the Beaver House Marks End of an Era in Grand Marais
By Shawn Perich
In Minnesota, many small towns define their greatness with cartoon monuments. Mythical logger Paul Bunyan looms over a couple of towns. Elsewhere, you can saddle up and ride a leaping walleye. Around the state, other outsized creatures include a prairie
Points North: The Brook Trout’s Revenge
By Shawn Perich
They say you shouldn’t drink the water when traveling south of the border, because you might be afflicted with an unflattering ailment known as Montezuma’s Revenge. If you venture north of the border, the water’s fine. But when in Canada, beware
Poins North: Looking for Ducks and Finding Wolves
By Shawn Perich
While thousands of Minnesota duck hunters sat in swamps last weekend, I went walking in the woods. Sitting in a blind beside a stool of decoys goes against my restless nature. If few ducks are flying, as is often the case, I soon have the urge to move
Points North: BWCAW Land Exchange—Another Failed Effort?
By Shawn Perich
Congressman Chip Cravaack made headlines recently when the U.S. House passed his legislation authorizing a land-for-land swap between the U.S. Forest Service and the State of Minnesota for 86,000 acres of state land located within the Boundary Waters
Points North: North Dakota May Be the New Paradise Lost
By Shawn Perich
About a decade ago, North Dakota hunters, upset with increasing numbers of out-of-state duck hunters, urged the State Legislature to pass new restrictions on nonresidents. Many believed they were seeing too many vehicles with Minnesota or Wisconsin
Points North: Mills Close, But Trees Keep Growing
By Shawn Perich
This summer, Minnesota lost the Verso paper mill in Sartell and the Georgia-Pacific hardboard plant in Duluth. Both appear to be permanent losses. The Sartell mill was destroyed by fire and the Duluth plant is being dismantled. They are not the first to go.
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