The National Park Service has designated indigenous copper mines found on Isle Royale as an official National Historic Landmark. Isle Royale National Park, or Minong, as it is known by the Ojibwe, is an archipelago of 450 islands in Lake Superior that sits about 14 miles from Grand Portage. Isle Royale is almost 46 miles long and nine miles wide, […]
To protect the Boundary Waters, environmental organization looks to support rural economic development
On January 20, the Industrial Education and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives held a hearing on HF14, a bill that would help finance the broadband network’s buildout throughout greater Minnesota. Rep. Rob Ecklund (DFL-International Falls) is sponsoring HF14, which, if passed, would add $120 million to the 2022- 2023 biennium state border to-border […]