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How to… track animals in the snow

Last week in the Star Tribune, Bill Marchel of Brainerd, Minnesota contributed an article on the utility of snow in tracking animal behavior, “… there’s a tattletale residing in our woods and fields. Lying, waiting, it is able to recall,…


Exploring Minnesota – electronically

Last summer I made a resolution to explore Minnesota by visiting destinations in my home state that I have not yet experienced. I started with an excursion to Ely and the Sudan mine last August, and just this past…


Frederic King Butters, 1878-1945

Ernst Abbe, University of Minnesota instructor, began a memorial article about his colleague Frederic K. Butters with the following quote: “‘Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subject pedibus’ – Vergil Fred Butters appreciated…