CCC Deer Tagging

CCC Deer Tagging It has become quite well known that biologists sometimes attach radio transmitters to large mammals to monitor their movements. They are also used on medium size and small mammals.

Wellness

Horsetail Lore & Medicine This time of year in late-winter and early- spring, my cabin fever begins to fall away and becomes replaced by an excited eagerness. Although I still require a jacket to go outside and it is generally wet and mucky, lacking any robust plant life, I want to spend all the time I can in the spring sunshine and simply will the plants to start growing aboveground once again! Soon, this eagerness, tempered by many months of patience, will be rewarded.

BEYOND REASON

What have you done? This week, Beyond Reason is going to try something new. I am going to ask a question and I’m hoping you, The Loyal Reader, will provide the answer.

Outdoors

Ski-U-Ma! The history of football at the University of Minnesota is much too long for me to know. And for nearly half of its history, football at the University of Minnesota was too irrelevant for me to care about.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Grand Marais Toastmasters Saturday, March 16, at ONE P.M. (Please note time change!) We're starting a Toastmasters Club in Grand Marais! Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that builds confidence and teaches public speaking skills.

Northwoods volunteer connection welcomes new Executive Director

Northwoods Volunteer Connection (NVC), a nonprofit organization based in Tofte, MN, announces its new executive director, Joanna “Jo” Swanson. Since 2014, Northwoods Volunteer Connection—a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit— has been dedicated to recruiting, training, and delivering volunteers to work in and around the Superior National Forest of Minnesota.

Superior National Forest Hires new Deputy Forest Supervisor

The Superior National Forest is pleased to announce the hiring of Drew Stroberg as permanent Deputy Forest Supervisor, previously held by Shannon Rische. Drew comes to the Superior NF as the previous district ranger on the Klamath National Forest and Butte Valley National Grassland-Goosenest Ranger District.

North Shore Health Announces New VITREA 3D Imaging System

North Shore Health (NSH) announces exciting new capabilities in their Imaging Department with the new VITREA 3-D System recreations for computed Tomography (CT). The VITREA system takes a CT scan and creates a 3-dimensional picture of the selected area of interest.