Points North Remarkable Rookie Perseveres in Marathon Sled Dog Race
By Shawn Perich During the recent running of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, folks I know were watching the progress of our friend and...
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Points North Lost Letter Recalls Formative Years
By Shawn Perich We were having coffee with our friend Ray, who owns a lodge in Ontario, when my business partner Amber had an idea....
Points North Buffer Strips Are Nothing New in the North
By Shawn Perich Governor Dayton’s proposal to establish a 50-foot buffer along all state waterways may have caused some folks in northern Minnesota to involuntarily...
Points North In the Boundary Waters, a Sprint to Fun
By Shawn Perich It’s hard to go halfway with ice fishing. Unless you have a friend who has an ice shelter and all of the...
Points North: In New Zealand, Stoats Are on the Most Wanted List
By Shawn Perich You may not know what a stoat is, even though some are likely living near you. If you saw one, you’d say,...
Points North: Wolf Views, Pro and Con, Are Often Based on Bar Talk
By Shawn Perich Minnesota wolf management is like a volleyball game. Competing interests bounce management back and forth over a net called the Endangered Species...
Points North A Tree for Christmas and Dreams for the New Year
By Shawn Perich If you drive along Highway 61 at dusk in early winter, you’ll often see grouse fly across the road. They are heading...
Points North So How Dumb Are We?
By Shawn Perich Sometime in the 1990s, I don’t recall the year, then Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt made an appearance in the Lake...