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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ron Bowen profits from prairie preservation

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ron Bowen profits from prairie preservation

Every year around about this time, a Minnesota businessman brings in an unusual harvest: seeds from native prairie plants. He aims to help preserve those species -- at a profit -- as their habitat slowly shrinks.
by Dan Olson

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Photos: Harvesting native Minn. prairie species

Photos: Harvesting native Minn. prairie species

The fall harvest is under way at Prairie Restorations, Inc. in Princeton, Minn., where more than 100 native plant species are grown and sold. The business, which was started by two brothers in 1977, specializes in the supply and support of native prairie, wetland, woodland and shoreline plant communities. Owner Ron Bowen said the company restores about 1,500 acres of prairie a year and produces seed for roughly 5,000 acres of prairie a year.
by Jeffrey Thompson

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Firefighters still battling BWCA blazes

Firefighters continue to battle several small wildfires burning in and around the parched Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
by Dan Kraker

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St. Cloud gets $3.3M for 'clean fuel' buses

St. Cloud gets $3.3M for 'clean fuel' buses

The U.S. Department of Transportation says St. Cloud Metro Bus will receive $3.3 million to help the system switch over to buses fueled by compressed natural gas.
by Conrad Wilson

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Despite Census findings, rural poverty entrenched in Minnesota

Despite Census findings, rural poverty entrenched in Minnesota

Many Minnesotans are battling tough circumstances in the northern part of the state. In Beltrami County the poverty rate is about 20 percent. Other nearby counties have struggled with chronic poverty for decades.
by Tom Robertson

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Last year's Pagami Creek blaze part of trend of worsening fires

Last year's Pagami Creek blaze part of trend of worsening fires

A year ago, the Pagami Creek fire roared across the Boundary Waters, engulfing 90,000 acres of forest in a single day. Signs of the devastation are still present. But the potential for another such fire isn't remote. That blaze was part of a nationwide pattern of bigger, more extreme wildfires,
by Dan Kraker

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Community paramedic ranks begin to grow in Minn.

Community paramedic ranks begin to grow in Minn.

Minnesota paramedics have begun training for a new certification as "community paramedics," letting them handle a new set of non-emergency health care situations.
by Tom Robertson

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Photos: A year after BWCA fire, a forest is reborn

Photos: A year after BWCA fire, a forest is reborn

What was once black and charred has now transformed into a lush green forest nearly a year after the Pagami Creek fire.

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Leaves begin to change color in Minn.

Leaves begin to change color in Minn.

The Department of Natural Resources has started updating its fall color reports and maps at noon every Thursday.

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Fits and starts for Iron Range labor talks over holiday weekend

Fits and starts for Iron Range labor talks over holiday weekend

Labor negotiations affect nearly 3,000 mine workers at five facilities on the Iron Range that mine low-grade iron ore and process it into taconite pellets used to make steel.
by Dan Kraker

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