Nature

“There is no accounting for the dead beaver, the dead muskrat, the poison in the water.”

We all have stakes in what this region means to us and our families. What if we acknowledged the complexities?

In her poignant memoir “Watershed”, Ranea Lenor Hanson points out that Minnesota is an apex whose rivers flow north to Hudson Bay, east through the Great Lakes, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. I rather enjoy the concept of our state being central to three directions. For me, it is a reminder that wherever you are in our state, there are three places you can flow.

Imagine you are on that departing spaceship. Will you suddenly panic at the loss of that smell that comes before rain?

Introduction written by Kristy Ornelas For the majority of my life, the faces I saw recreating and educating on the

Why the land? Because Mother Earth can hold it.

Why are the terms “explore,” “conquer,” and “discover” so prevalent when we talk about the outdoors? These terms are callbacks to colonialism and the so-called Age of Discovery.

In 2009, I was dragged into a new reality — one in which restoring Minnesota’s Northwoods to its historical grandeur is not possible due to the state’s fast-warming climate.

Lisa McKhann: Going to Ground Recently, when it was cold and blustery outside, my cat and I shared a sunbeam

My first memory of creating art was as a three-year-old. I took my mother’s food coloring collection — the type

Last summer, our Girl Scout troop went on a three-day trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. None of

Allison Austin grew up in a rural environment near Dayton, Minnesota. As a 7-year-old, she spent hours crushing herbs and