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Points North: After 25 years, angling nomad still passionate about fly fishing
If you’ve spent time fly-fishing on the trout lakes of the Gunflint Trail, maybe you’ve met Reuben Swenson. For nearly 25 years, he’s fished and camped along the Trail every summer for weeks or months at a time. For Swenson, age 67, fly fishing is life. But there is more to the story.
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Points North: High School Student Seeks to Build a Bark Canoe
Talon Stammen of Grand Forks, North Dakota was in Grand Marais recently to take a birch bark canoe-building class at the North House Folk School. For anyone unfamiliar with the school, North House is a place where you can learn traditional crafts ranging from boat
Points North: Picking the North Shore’s Best Mushroom
Chanterelles are a powerful distraction. During the past week, I’ve spent several hours walking through the woods and staring at the ground, oblivious to mosquitoes and horseflies, in search of the
butter-yellow mushrooms. I’ve been successful. Nearly
Points North: Don’t Destroy Fish and Wildlife Conservation to Balance the Budget
By Shawn Perich
Dan Ashe was wearing his game face when he met with writers for a roundtable lunch at the recent Utah conference of the Outdoor Writers of America. Cloaked in a shroud of bad news, Ashe, who was recently appointed director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Points North: In Utah, Finding Wilderness on the Edge of Town
By Shawn Perich
Utah’s Watsatch Range is known as a skiing mecca, where a winter’s accumulation of snow may measure 500 inches or more. With major ski areas conveniently located less than an hour from the Salt Lake City Airport, skiing makes a significant
Points North: Are Lawmakers Lost in the Woods?
By Shawn Perich
On June 30, hours before the state government shut down, three Minnesota loggers went before a judge in International Falls to sue the state for breach of contract regarding existing timber sales. The Minnesota DNR had ordered loggers to quit working