Tag: Minnesota
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Falling for Fall…
… colors. Westward we go, but this time we’re leaning a bit towards the north of west, rather than south of west. We left a yesterday after replacing the psycho-random refrigerator thermostat, and will be back home in time for various appointments. Our target is the North Dakota Badlands & Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The…
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Shanty Town, Minnesota Style
Sort of …. After leaving the Big Bog bombing range I headed up to the Canadian border. We can’t visit Canada of course, but we can get within a stones throw along the Rainy River. Heck – we could even throw a stone across, get a Canuck to throw one back and start a border…
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The Big Bog
Update: I found out from a friend who lives nearby that the bog was also used as a bombing range during and after WWII. A long-gone glacial lake; hundreds of square miles of lowlands, swamps and peat bogs; stolen land, a massive drainage project, land speculation; failed farms and government bailouts … this is a…
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Someone Lost Their Forty
A hundred-twenty years ago lumber was big in Minnesota. The forests in Michigan and Wisconsin were used up. Demand was not used up. Minnesota was next in line. In an era where the natural resources existed to exploit rather than enjoy, most of the valuable trees in Minnesota were logged out and sent down river…
Michael Janke 