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10YEARS AGO MARCH 22, 2014 v While one mystery was solved, another mystery looms, but never may be solved. A necropsy performed by the pathologists at Colorado State Veterinary Diagnostic on “Isabelle” the lone grey wolf found dead on the shore of Lake Superior in Grand Portage, determined that a lightweight pellet shot from an air gun killed her.

Although the Cook County News-Herald knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The News-Herald shares these stories as a reminder to all to be safe and to follow the rules!

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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers powerful Federal funding incentives, combined with new Minnesota state funding, to help utilities and every electricity consumer accomplish this important clean energy transformation. These incentives all focus on massive expansion of renewables generation and transmission for electricity consumers. Our nation is blessed with large areas (mostly central US) ideal for renewables generation. Most residential, commercial, and industrial electricity consumers are located near our coasts. Consequently, we must design and build huge amounts of new “renewables” primarily in the rural Midwest and connect it to consumers in distant population centers with major transmission infrastructure expansion. This incredible demand and powerful incentives for clean energy also strongly encourages rooftop solar and battery storage for homes and businesses (distributed generation) with upgrades needed of local grid infrastructure. These upgrades create opportunities to develop safer, stronger local grids more “resilient” to our increasing severe weather and natural disaster events.