Black_Fly

What happens when you paddle a bent shaft backwards? If no one else is around it feels odd.😕 If your paddling friends are around it...

I’ve seen the proposed site plan. 653 acres for 1.5 million tons of tailings, water on both sides of the site, shallow water table.

I mapped tailings from coal strip mines in Indiana, Kentucky. It’s not something you can fix afterwards. Not worth the risk...

It's not worth taking the chance, on the mine not contaminating the BWCA. There is No fix, if the BWCA is contaminated. The BWCA is...

That's a Monfort Snowshoe or a copy of one; I don't see any roving on it. Monfort was famous for using extremely thin ribs reinforced...

Spring

I had a nosey moose checking out my skis the other day. As soon as he saw me on the porch he made a bee line towards me. Moose usually...

This is me in Alaska this past summer. Extra credit for identifying the canoe model.

Linda and I paddled the local little Miami National Scenic River, Fort Ancient section to just past the sewage plant below Morrow Ohio...

Resolution passed 50-49. Last hope is Mn DNR in the permitting process. Pressure will be intense from the highest levels to fast track...

I remember all that upheaval. This platform is a huge improvement.

There wasn’t anybody between Willis and myself. When the site went orphaned the popular consensus was that it was finished. I sent an...

I just heard that the senate is voting on the resolution to eliminate the moratorium on copper sulfide mining in the headwaters of BWCA...

I think it's good to be open-minded since there are so many variables as yknpdlr said, and we really don't know what they all are and...