10 Years Ago
May 17, 2002
A DNR field directive sent from St. Paul last week seems to indicate the agency is taking steps to more closely manage the use of Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs) on state forests and other state-owned land. “We want the field staff to move forward with an environmentally sound, well-managed trail system,” said DNR spokesman Brad Moore. The comprehensive directive emphasizes a conservation-based approach to OHV management. The agency intends to begin environmental assessments of proposed trails and encourages planners to consider other forest users when laying out trail systems.
For the third year in a row, high school golfers from Cook County High School have combined with the squad from Kelley High School in Silver Bay. Both squads (boys and girls) are training independently and then hold qualifying rounds before meets to determine who will play. Six spots are open for every meet. Cook County is contributing 17 kids to the team – 15 boys and two girls.
20 Years Ago
May 18, 1992
Plans to issue 15 or 16 special-use permits for countyowned lakefront property in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness were outlined by County Assessor Ted Mershon last week. He told the commissioners the permits would be put up for sale by sealed bids at a sale planned for mid-June. The plan is being opposed by the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, headquartered in Minneapolis. The Friends said they may seek a court injunction to halt the plan. The commissioners said they decided to go ahead with selling the special use permits after many years of trying to trade the property inside the BWCAW to the Forest Service without any luck. The county board would have liked to trade the BWCAW parcels for lands of equal value outside the wilderness, which then could be sold and placed on the tax rolls.
The junior high track squads got under way April 30 on a cold wintry day. The meet was canceled due to the weather after only a portion of it had been held at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
50 Years Ago
May 17, 1962
Judge Clarence R. Magney, former associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and a champion for keeping the North Shore scenic, died Monday morning in Methodist Hospital, Rochester. He was a victim of leukemia at age 79; his condition turned to pneumonia near the end.
The first pulp of the season left yesterday aboard the Salvage, bound for points down the lake. About 1,800 cords of pulpwood were to be unloaded at Green Bay, Wis., and then hauled by rail to Kaukana, Wis. to the paper mills there.
Attorney Wayne G. Johnson of Silver Bay is alerting North Shorites to a new Wilderness Area bill just passed by the Senate which he says is sponsored by the Isaak Walton League. Attorney Johnson says the bill will “keep vast wilderness areas in their present natural state,” and also contains a provision to let the president, rather than Congress, decide which lands should be safeguarded. It also gives the president power to ban roads, motor boats, airstrips, airplane travel, and any other commercial enterprise in the area.
90 Years Ago
May 18, 1922
Carl Holt sprained his ankle Monday and has been unable to walk since without a cane.
There are still a few yards which are not cleaned up. The village marshal will soon be around to inspect them.
One hundred cans of speckled trout fry arrived on the America Sunday night and the local sportsmen saw to it that they were all properly planted in streams and lakes the following day.
The walls for the addition to the Motor Inn are now completed, and the floor and roof only remain to be built.
William Bally and a friend were fishing in the east end of the county Sunday. Aside from getting some nice speckled beauties they also got lost!
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