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Norsk Oasis

Last week we shared how the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey was first implemented by director Newton Horace Winchell, State Geologist. Winchell’s field notebooks, along with his annual reports of the survey, provide great insight in to the State…


Explorations of Fillmore County

This past weekend I traveled to southeastern Minnesota to visit family and camp at Forestville State Park near Preston in Fillmore County. Forestville State Park resides in the Root River Valley, a unique area in the southeast corner of the…