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Twin Cities Marathon is Sunday: Here are 10 things to know about race day
How and when to watch, and what to know about marathon day in the Twin Cities:
Anderson: Mallard mystery finds too many drakes, too few hens with productivity at risk
Hunters shoot more male mallards, which only compounds puzzling sex-ratio disparity.
Q&A: Your running story is fuel for Twin Cities Marathon director
Virginia Brophy Achman prepares to exit Twin Cities in Motion, leaving a legacy of devotion to running and its possibilities. She talked about Sunday's Twin Cities Marathon and other topics.
What to know about Twin Cities Marathon, TC 10 Mile this Sunday
Two big races start in downtown Minneapolis and end in St. Paul on one eventful morning. Here's what you need to know about Sunday's race day:
Coordinated hunt for silver carp in Minnesota and Wisconsin comes up empty
But the invasive fish are still out there.
Polaris hopes innovation culture at Roseau will help drive company's future
With $8 billion in sales and 16,000 global employees, Medina-based Polaris still relies on its Roseau plant for success.
Birkebeiner staff has created a winter event exclusively for women
The Ski de She is meant to build up and excite what organizers believe is an underrepresented group in the sport.
DNR: February 2021 hunt had little effect on wolf population
Wisconsin wildlife officials estimate Wisconsin's wolf population currently stands at about 970 animals, demonstrating that a much-maligned February 2021 hunting season had little impact on the population as a whole.
Twin Cities in Motion was ahead of other major marathons with nonbinary division
Marathon organizers added the category in 2019 for runners who don't identify as men or women.
What's happening in Minnesota's natural world this time of year? A lot.
Naturalist Jim Gilbert is watching high and low for signs of autumn.
Anderson: Manitoba looks to implement guide system for American waterfowlers
Meanwhile, teal show up in good numbers statewide on the Minnesota duck opener.
Twin Cities Marathon still running at 40
The Twin Cities Marathon, beginning in Minneapolis and ending in St. Paul, celebrates 40 years this weekend.
DNR will kill geese on Duluth river to help wild rice restoration
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will euthanize up to 300 Canada geese living on the St. Louis River next summer.
Anderson: Flush with vegetation, restored Marsh Lake will welcome migrating ducks this fall
The huge, multi-year project adds to habitat in Lac qui Parle area of western Minnesota.
Minnesota briefs: DNR announces annual land sales
And the Fond du Lac Reservation improves its water system with a $1.2 million upgrade.
Anderson: Dogs make friends the world over, as the Queen could attest
Corgis were house pals of the late Queen Elizabeth II, but in the field — as with many Minnesota waterfowlers — Labradors were her favorites.
State parks and trails are active with projects, too, and here is a glance
Itasca will get new paved segment for cyclists; William O'Brien will get work around better accessibility for disabled visitors.
Appeal of dogs and the joy they bring is universal
The loss of 'Millie,' former President and Mrs. Bush's springer spaniel, left a void that needed to be filled.
Minnesota Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice
Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up.
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