My Minnesota

Last week we saw a very rare occurrence for Minnesota in mid-February: not one but two separate and distinct motorcycles were on the road la...

Today’s posting is going to be short and not so sweet. Sorry! Many pundits are commenting on the problems associated with the recent SCOTUS ...

If we assume the Guardian reported this correctly, someone in a position of responsibility in the Democratic Party was/is asleep at the swit...

The Spring Equinox occurs each year within a very limited timeframe. Easter , however, can move around quite a bit. This year brought us th...

We got a bunch of water in celebration of today. Unfortunately, it came as flakes, not drops, and we were the recipients of more than twice ...

We dodged several bullets yesterday, almost literally. There were thunderstorms all around us and we were caught, briefly, in a torrential d...

I’ve been playing in and around, and working on and for, rivers, streams and oceans for more than half a century. I keep finding that my kno...

Yesterday, beneath a gray, cloud-covered sky, we witnessed a flock of five swans flying toward something, somewhere. The silhouettes of whit...

Today is World Rivers Day.  Here in the US, we have an abundance of rivers but less and less an abundance of clean water, and, with climate ...

I’ve been doing a lot of reading recently about the effects of climate change on stream trout. The picture isn’t pretty. One article notes t...

 It’s been 50 years since Congress passed and overrode a  presidential veto to enact into law the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1972. If one...

There are two books that I’ll be acquiring sometime this month. I discovered them after I had put together my list of requests for an upcomi...

 One of the nice things about below average temperatures in June is that the bread baking season continues to warm the house and make it sme...

The water is very high in theSunrise River pools along highway 36 in the Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area [WMA]. In fact, it’s high eno...