Northern Connections

Sheer cliffs tower above sparkling waves. Smooth domes swell up before you on a portage. Craggy points reach out to caress the water. Oddly-shaped boulders...

Last August, a group of four friends set out to circumnavigate Lake Superior. The basic ingredients of this story are familiar to anyone who lives...

Can cross-country skiing save the world? Ben Popp, executive director of the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation (ABSF), has enough energy and ideas to make that...

Impressive waves crashed into the rocky coast of Lake Superior as we drove along Minnesota’s North Shore. High winds and cold rain are not the...

Outside, the dried stalks of milkweed, tansy, bee balm and sunflowers sport fluffy little caps of snow. Each dead flower clings to a few tiny...

“I come here today with tears in my heart,” began Isanti Dak’ota Hok’api as he led the Indigenous opening ceremony at Gustavus Adolphus College’s 55th...

Each year, beginning as early as August, red maple trees burst into flaming pyres of crimson leaves. It’s the ones in the swamps that go...

All three species of flying squirrels in North America—northern, southern, and Humboldt’s flying squirrels—glow hot pink when illuminated by a black light flashlight. When’s the...