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In the idyllic town of Shakopee, where the Minnesota River winds its peaceful course, and a community finds solace, tranquility turns to terror when a horrifying crime rocks the neighborhood to its core. A young woman witnesses a night-marish scene right outside her home and shares it, sending shockwaves through the town and beyond.

Scott Mackenthun is back in to talk about fishing in southern Minnesota. We also discuss the first year of two line fishing on the Minnesota River and his thoughts on the possibility of it expanding to other river systems in the state. Plus, of course. a Fast Five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott Mackenthun is back in to talk about fishing in southern Minnesota. We also discuss the first year of two line fishing on the Minnesota River and his thoughts on the possibility of it expanding to other river systems in the state. Plus, of course. a Fast Five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're watching a dam just south of Mankto that is at risk of breaking. We talked with our reporter on the scene. Meanwhile in Henderson, the city is holding an emergency council meeting as flooding from the Minnesota River washes out roadways.E-bike popularity is skyrocketing, and that's got folks looking into the safety risks of owning one. We spoke with the deputy director of Bike Minnesota.A local girls volleyball coach is being inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame. She shared some career highlights.A museum is gathering oral histories from Native people living around Bassett Creek, the first project of its kind in the suburbs. We heard more from our Native News team.

The southern Minnesota town of Henderson is holding an emergency city council meeting Monday night after flooding from the Minnesota River is causing the town to quickly become surrounded by water. Henderson is down to just one road to get in and out of town. Joining MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer is Henderson Mayor Keith Swenson.

Episode 431 ~ May 23, 2024 Podcast Info / Topics With the plan to lure more people outdoors, a couple of Scotts paddled their way down the Minnesota River to start a record they hope others will attempt to beat Louisiana Swamp Base is a great place for youth groups to go learn some life […]

Episode 431 ~ May 23, 2024 Podcast Info / Topics With the plan to lure more people outdoors, a couple of Scotts paddled their way down the Minnesota River to start a record they hope others will attempt to beat Louisiana Swamp Base is a great place for youth groups to go learn some life […]

Lane closures are in place along a stretch of Interstate 494 in the southern Twin Cities metro area. The freeway is down to two lanes in each direction across the Minnesota River near the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The closures will remain in place through late October. And hours after unionized education support professionals in Minneapolis Public Schools filed a notice to strike later this month, leaders from both the union and district announced they'd reached a deal. This is an MPR News morning update, hosted by Elana See. Music by Gary Meister.Find more from these stories at MPRnews.org.Minneapolis schools, support staff reach deal to avoid strikeRead the latest edition of the AM Update newsletter.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or RSS.

Episode 425 ~ April 11, 2024 Podcast Info / Topics After setting a speed record on the Mississippi in 2023, Scott Miller has his eye set on the Minnesota River A motion to set and upper age limit on rafting and maybe require a fitness certificate for seniors in is front of the High Court […]

Episode 425 ~ April 11, 2024 Podcast Info / Topics After setting a speed record on the Mississippi in 2023, Scott Miller has his eye set on the Minnesota River A motion to set and upper age limit on rafting and maybe require a fitness certificate for seniors in is front of the High Court […]

Scott Mackenthun talks patience as he and his fellow southern Minnesotans wait for ice. He previews what he expects once the ice is safe, talks a little Eel Pout, recaps his hunting seasons and discusses the first several months of two line fishing in the Minnesota River. Plus, a Fast Five, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott Mackenthun talks patience as he and his fellow southern Minnesotans wait for ice. He previews what he expects once the ice is safe, talks a little Eel Pout, recaps his hunting seasons and discusses the first several months of two line fishing in the Minnesota River. Plus, a Fast Five, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2011, Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren climbed into their canoe and pushed off the banks of the Minnesota River just outside Minneapolis. Their goal was to paddle to Hudson Bay, thousands of miles away in Canada. It was a huge test of physical strength and friendship.

In this special episode of the Flying Midwest Podcast, we pay heartfelt tribute to the remarkable life and legacy of Loren Jones, an exceptional aviator who left an indelible mark on the aviation community. Our last conversation with Loren took place at this year's Airventure, where he graciously shared his unwavering passion for aviation with us during one of our FMP Live from OSH recordings. Not only was Loren a source of inspiration, but he was also a skilled Gyrocopter builder and pilot. In a testament to his expertise, he was awarded a well-deserved 2nd Place Lindy Award in the Gyroplan category. Loren's legacy extends to the countless lives he touched as an instructor, guiding aspiring aviators with patience, expertise, and a genuine love for aviation. On October 8th, Loren was involved in a devastating crash of his beloved Gyrocopter in southern Minnesota, resulting in a crash into the Minnesota River. Though rescue workers displayed incredible bravery in retrieving Loren from the river after the accident, he ultimately succumbed to his injuries, leaving an irreplaceable void in the aviation world. Join us in this emotional episode as we celebrate Loren Jones's lasting impact and reflect on his legacy in the world of aviation. Our thoughts and condolences go out to Loren's family and friends during this challenging time. As we commemorate the life of a true aviation legend, we encourage our listeners to share their own stories, memories, and tributes on our social media channels. Fly high, Loren, and may your inspiration continue to guide and uplift generations of aviators to come.

On this episode of Dads with Daughters, our guest Mike Stout, known as the Northland Adventurer, shares his journey of fatherhood and his remarkable experiences kayaking the Great Lakes. Mike's story begins with his high anticipation and commitment to being a great father, even planning to write a book about it. Unfortunately, he goes through some tough times and feels like he failed as a parent, which becomes his greatest regret. As a single parent, Mike shares the challenges of raising his children alone and the traumatic experiences they went through. He emphasizes the importance of fathers being active in their children's lives, especially daughters. But it's not just about fatherhood. Mike reflects on his incredible kayaking expeditions, including crossing Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. He paints a vivid picture of the four quarters of the journey, from enthusiasm to doubts and fatigue, and finding moments of gratitude and reflection along the way. Through these experiences, Mike feels a sense of closeness with his deceased loved ones and mentors, as well as God. The episode also highlights resources like the Fatherhood Insider and the Facebook community Dads with Daughters, which provide tools and support for fathers to improve their fatherhood skills. Mike shares his experience as a single father during his children's teenage years and the challenges of not having a partner to lean on. He still feels guilty and wishes he could have done more, despite his children's reassurance that he didn't fail as a father. Now, as his children are adults and he has a granddaughter, Mike reflects on how amazing it is to have a family and the importance of hope during the darkest times. He plans to continue his adventures, not only on Lake Michigan but also in giving back and creating nonprofits. Throughout the episode, Mike shares his journey as a father and his kayaking achievements, inspiring listeners to cherish special moments with their children and pursue personal enjoyment and growth as fathers. If you've enjoyed today's episode of the Dads With Daughters podcast, we invite you to check out the Fatherhood Insider. The Fatherhood Insider is the essential resource for any dad that wants to be the best dad that he can be. We know that no child comes with an instruction manual, and most are figuring it out as they go along. The Fatherhood Insider is full of valuable resources and information that will up your game on fatherhood. Through our extensive course library, interactive forum, step-by-step roadmaps, and more you will engage and learn with experts but more importantly with dads like you. So check it out today! TRANSCRIPT Christopher Lewis [00:00:06]: Welcome to dads with daughters. In this show, we spotlight dads resources and more to help you be the best dad you can be. Christopher Lewis [00:00:16]: Hey, everyone, this is Chris. And welcome back to the Dads with Daughters podcast, where we bring you guests to be active participants in your daughter's lives, raising them to be strong, independent women. Really excited to have you back again this week. As always, every week, I love being able to sit down and talk to you about the journey that you're on in being a father to a daughter. And every dad's journey is just a little bit different. And that's why it's so important for us to talk to other dads, to listen to other dads, to learn from other dads. And that's why every week I love being able to bring you different people, different guests, different dads that have done this fatherhood journey in a little bit different way and that are still doing their fatherhood journey in a little bit different way. And this week, we got another great guest with us. Mike Stout is with us. And Mike is a father of two daughters. Be talking about that, but he's also known as the Northland Adventurer. He has had some really remarkable experiences kayaking the Great Lakes and doing some other really unique things. And we're going to talk about that as well. And I'm really excited to have him here today. Mike, thanks so much for being here. Mike Stout [00:01:28]: Thank you, Mike. Christopher Lewis [00:01:31]: I said that you are a father of two daughters, and one of the things that I love to do is learn a little bit more about you as a dad. So what I would love to do is turn the clock back in time and all the way back to that first moment when you found out that you were going to be a dad to a daughter, what was going through your head? Mike Stout [00:01:50]: Wow. Yeah, it was a blessing. It was a miracle that came true. I'll go back further. When I was in college, at the age of maybe 20 years old, I began looking forward, looking envisioning what would my life be like? And the only thing I thought of and could think of was, I'm going to have two daughters. I envision holding their hands, taking them shopping, spending time, and that was my singular vision, was going to be the father of two girls. So I never envisioned playing baseball or football or tennis or golf. But the son, it was always two girls. And I've been blessed with two girls. So when I first heard that I was going to be a father, I was ecstatic, of course. Couldn't wait. And then when we discovered it was going to be a girl, it was Islam, a blessing, a miracle that came true. I was just ecstatic. Christopher Lewis [00:02:54]: I talked to a lot of dads, and many dads talk about that. There's definitely a fear of being a father, just in general, but especially with dads, with daughters, that sometimes there's that additional fear of raising daughters. Talk to me about what was your biggest fear in raising your daughters. Mike Stout [00:03:13]: I had such high anticipation. I had no fear. I was just excited. I knew if I had the opportunity, I was going to be a great father. And I was so committed, so confident and so sure I was going to be a great father. And being also a corporate executive, I was going to write a book about being exceptional father. I wanted to make sure that every father knew how important it is for them to be active in their children's lives, but in particular their daughters. Unfortunately, things happen in life and we went through some terrible times and I felt that I failed horribly. And it was about when they were in the fourth and 6th grade, I became a full time single parent, so legal and so physical. And what they went through during that time was so traumatic. I felt I failed because I could protect them against those unimaginable difficult times they went through. So it may be my single greatest regret that I can protect them. And being a father, that's our role, to protect our children, in particular our daughters. So it's still tough. Christopher Lewis [00:04:34]: Let's talk a little bit about that because I know that, like you said, it was a tough time. And for you, I guess now your daughters are adults, you raise them and they're out on their own. As they reflect back now and I don't know, have you had those conversations with them about what you had hoped to be as a father, what you tried to be as a father, and what they reflect back to you about? Of course, for you it was a traumatic time and you know, it was a traumatic time for them. But as you talk to them now and they reflect back, do they give you feedback that eases your mind at all? Mike Stout [00:05:10]: In fact, they have during that time when they're young teenagers or preteens, it was tough, it was confusing for them, for all of us. We're all going through it for the first time together. And being a single father, you get the good, the bad and the ugly. Being a single father, you get mostly the bad and the ugly because they have their girlfriends to give the good to. But I don't mind that I was there. That's my role. I'll take it all. But now that they're adults in their mid 20s often talk to them, one in particular, and they reassure me that I did not fail. That they often say it was because of maybe my being always there and being that pillar that they needed to lean into. That they're proud of what I did. And they were proud that I was there for them, as many other fathers perhaps wouldn't. So having them tell me that it's a great relief feel reassured, but I still feel guilty for not having done more and that's just the reality. But having said that, we also have a granddaughter, which is when you have your children, it's amazing, but when you have a grandchild, it's unimaginable. And I feel that despite all the things that we've gone through, we have come all, you know, full circle and we are better off than I could have ever imagined. So there's hope. There's hope for all of us, even those during those most difficult dark times. And hope people hang out of that and believe that. Christopher Lewis [00:06:46]: Appreciate you sharing that, because that was one of the things I was just going to say, is that it sounds more hopeful than not that for all dads that are going through those dark times and there are going to be some dark times for some dads as they go through that experience, there's going to be high and low points. That may not be as catastrophic as I can tell, that the experience that you went through, but there are still going to be highs and lows and that even if you feel like you failed, you may not have failed, but it may take a little bit of time to work your way back. And that's okay. You just keep working your way back. And we have to never give up on our kids. And as I can tell, you never give up on your kids. And that's one of the things and one of the roles that a father has to do. Mike Stout [00:07:31]: Exactly. Never give up. Christopher Lewis [00:07:33]: Now, as you look back at the relationship that you have with your daughters and you think about each of them, I mean, when you have two kids, you have to do different things because they're different people. You have to build unique relationships with each child. As you think back to both of your kids, how did you create those special bonds with each of your children? Mike Stout [00:07:58]: Uniquely, I was lucky because of the age difference. They were typically in different schools, they were in different competitive teams, had different friends. So I could give them the individual time as they were growing up. But they required more of time, more of my time obviously, to tend to both of them. But I had individual relations and experiences with both of them based on their strengths and weaknesses and moments of need. So because of the age difference, it worked out really well. Christopher Lewis [00:08:28]: That definitely helps. And for some dads you have that larger age difference. Other times they might be right on top of one another and then you have to deal with that as well. But it is so important to be able to create that time, create those moments and have those special moments with each of your children because they will remember that. Now, I did mention that you are also known as the Northland Adventurer. And I know that there was a point in time where you made a big change. You said you were in the corporate world, and as you transitioned out of the corporate world, you made some changes to your life to look at things that you enjoyed doing, and you did some new things. So talk to me about this transition and what it means to be the Northland adventurer. Mike Stout [00:09:14]: Yes, it's been quite the journey. The transition was when I became a full time single parent. I did choose between corporate America and being a full time parent. Unfortunately, I had the means and the opportunity. I thought it was an easy decision. Like I mentioned before, when I was in college, that was my single goal vision, to be the best father. So I was dedicated to that. So when I pivoted, I began consulting. And as our children get older, they become stronger and more independent. And then when they have keys to the car, the dad seemed to be less important than ever before. So as it became, young adults became into their own. It was time for me to rediscover myself. What can I do that I will enjoy personally? Help me from a mental, physical and a spiritual perspective. For some reason, living in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, with the lakes and rivers around, the idea of kayaking came to mind. And I picked up the sport of kayaking, and it touched me. I was fortunate to have, not too far where I live, the Minnesota River, the Mississippi River, the St. Croix, the Namicagan, some incredibly large scenic rivers, and being somewhat competitive and always pushing to be better, I picked up the sport and just fell in love with it. It provided the exercise, the serenity, outdoors, water, adventure, all those things that I love. And immediately I began looking for greater challenges, greater distances, more challenging rivers, greater speed. And very early on, I had the idea of crossing Lake Michigan just after I began the sport. And being from West Michigan, having an affinity for the Great Lakes, I've always felt very comfortable, felt there's been a tug back to the lakes. So I didn't tell my daughters that immediately, and I told a few others, and nobody thought that was a good idea. Paddling 50, 60 miles across the great lake as a beginner, kayaker, it's risky, but I was confident in my skills and my enthusiasm. And the first trip was extraordinary. I paddled from the middle of the afternoon, all night long, early morning, under the stars. Just an amazing experience. But being the first time, it was kind of scary and at times overwhelming. Like anything for the first time was an amazing accomplishment. So the next challenge, I thought, well, I'll cross Lake Superior. Knowing how a few thought Lake Michigan was a good idea, I kept that idea to myself. Make a long story short, the next year I journeyed across Lake Superior. It took me 27 and a half hours it was a treacherous paddle. I was lucky to have gotten off alive. I vowed to never return to Lake Superior again if I got off alive. I made it and I've not gone back to Lake Superior. Then the next challenge was to cross Lake Michigan for the second time, then a third time, then three times in a year, and then for a 6th time. So I'm lucky and excited and proud to say I'm the first person to cross Lake Michigan solo unassisted. Not just once, but a record six times. So the Northland adventure has stuck with me because of over the six years I paddled 6000 miles across the upper Midwest, some of the most scenic rivers and lakes, the Great Lakes, and it's been in this amazing journey. Another factor I chose to do this is because my dad died at an early age and he had regrets that he didn't do those things he wished he had. My brother died when he was 55 and I was 51 at the time. And he had great regrets that he didn't do things that he wished he had when he had the health and opportunity. So that was perhaps a driving force that I wanted to do things when I could. I would have no regrets and also perhaps proved to be a role model for others, but also to give my daughter something to boast about. They say, my dad did this, let's talk about that. Christopher Lewis [00:13:46]: So you did these feats. I'm going to say you had these opportunities, you went and crossed these large, vast areas and you did it alone and by yourself. And you did prevail, you did get through, even through Superior. But let me know, as you started to do this, as you continued to do this, what kind of feedback are you getting from your daughters? Mike Stout [00:14:11]: They've been asked that a number of times by reporters and others, and they simply say, well, that's what my dad does. So at first they thought was maybe a little bit aspirational foolish, perhaps they use different adjectives to describe my thoughts, but now it's simply what their dad does. So I'm glad to be able to instill upon them the sense of independence, confidence, to challenge yourself, pursue new goals. And in that, they have both moved to California on their own, never having a job. So we want to go up there and pioneer and create our own path. We feel that we can do this on our own. And hopefully that my example of pioneering and being adventurous has given them a new venue and a new view on life. Christopher Lewis [00:14:59]: Let's talk a little bit about what you've learned along the way. So as you go across these vast distances by yourself, I'm sure there's definitely time not only to reflect and to think and to ponder, but at the same time, when you're going across a place like Lake Superior that is going to challenge you in other ways and threaten your life. You definitely have to reflect in different ways. But as you've done these different things and as you have been challenged in different ways, how has it made you look at life differently? Mike Stout [00:15:39]: Good question. It makes you truly treasure it and fully appreciate every moment. Especially value those times with your family and close to your friends. Crossing Lake Superior, that was all about survival. I just wanted to get off alive and to be able to watch my children grow and my granddaughter grow as well. In crossing Lake Michigan, I've got that down to a pretty fast pace of just over 13 hours. I've become much more strategic in my approach, choosing good windows of opportunity. But when you cross Lake Michigan, there's four distinct quarters. The first quarter is all about the enthusiasm, the excitement of being able to do this again. Get out there in the middle of the lake where all you see for hundreds of square miles, just a sea of blue. The lake takes on the colors of the sky. It's just an incredible, peaceful, tranquil moment. The second quarter, you start getting into the routine, the effort, the exercise, pacing yourself on the time, the energy, the meals, hydration. It becomes a workout. The third quarter, you begin doubting your wisdom. You're getting fatigued and tired, and even though you're enjoying it, you know you're only halfway through. But it's somewhere near the end of the third quarter, the beginning of the fourth, just before you can see the lighthouse on Lake Michigan, you look up and you really begin thinking and thanking God for such a remarkable life. You think about what you've done and what you haven't done, what you wish you could have done differently. But it all goes back to just how much I appreciate the life that I've had. My two daughters and of course, my granddaughter. So when I look up in the sky and look up in the heaven, I begin envisioning. And actually, I can see the faces of my grandparents, my parents. I imagine my mother rolling her eyes and my dad nodding affirmatively, my brother encouraging me. I see the face of my best friend, Jack Hoyle, who just died a few days ago. The close mentor. Pamela kaspari. And they're all cheering exciting, except for mom. Mom's a little bit apprehensive and wonder what I'm doing. You get this amazing closeness with God. I literally envision speaking to and looking at my brother and my parents, grandparents making my way to Pamela, then Jack, and Jack's next to God. And I just want to take another look down that line and take a picture of God. But of course, the picture of the vision disappears when you're out that lake. And that what drives me back to the lake. To do it that 4th, 5th, 6th time and likely a 7th time, is that closeness that I get there and nowhere else. That closeness with family of past friends and family who passed on before. And I just hope others can truly appreciate how lucky we are to have the life that we have and the opportunities, and most importantly, just embrace your friends and family and of course our daughters and our children and grandchildren. You really appreciate what you have through alone. It's all you have is simply yourself and your thoughts at the time. Christopher Lewis [00:19:18]: You've done some things that other people might have only dreamt of or they may have only thought of doing, or maybe never have even thought of doing, have no interest at all in doing. As you think about the future and other goals, other things that you might want to do. Are there white whales out there for you to slay? Are there other lakes that you want to cross? Do you want to do Ontario and Erie as well? Do you want to do other things as you look at the future? Mike Stout [00:19:51]: Well, I really have an affinity for Lake Michigan. I grew up on West Michigan and I'm always being pulled back to that great lake. So I envision doing a 7th paddle. Maybe there'll be more, but it's just because of that closeness I get with my family and friends and god, I don't envision going anywhere else besides Lake Michigan. I could do others, but that'd be more for. Simply the accomplishment saying I've done this, I've done that, but that close I get. The family on Lake Michigan is extraordinarily special. That draws me back. But I do see doing other things of perhaps giving back. And also before I close, my chapter is to create other nonprofits and help build other businesses and leverage my skills in marketing, business development, and entrepreneurialism. So I have plenty to do, plenty to yet to accomplish. Christopher Lewis [00:20:56]: We always finish our interviews with what I like to call our Fatherhood Five, where I ask you five more questions to delve deeper into you as a dad. Are you ready? Mike Stout [00:21:03]: I'm ready. Christopher Lewis [00:21:04]: In one word, what is fatherhood? Mike Stout [00:21:07]: It's a gift. Christopher Lewis [00:21:08]: When was the time that you finally felt like you succeeded at being a father to a daughter? Mike Stout [00:21:12]: When they tell you that they're proud of you, that affirmation is amazing. And when they tell me to forgive myself? Christopher Lewis [00:21:22]: Now, if I was to talk to your daughters, how would they describe you as a dad? Mike Stout [00:21:26]: Hopefully, and I think they would, they would describe me as being affectionate, supportive, there for them, driven, adventurous, and hopefully proud. Christopher Lewis [00:21:37]: What inspires you to be a better dad? Mike Stout [00:21:39]: I'm driven every day to be a better dad. Like I said, when I was in college, that was my goal. My vision was to have two daughters. And whatever I do, whatever I accomplish, be it in business, adventure, sports, my legacy is my two daughters and granddaughter and doing the best that they can for them. Christopher Lewis [00:22:02]: Now, you've given a number of pieces of advice you've talked about your own experience, but what's one piece of advice you'd want to give to every dad? Mike Stout [00:22:10]: Just celebrate those good times as there are many and during those times of doubt, of worry, to know that you're not alone. You too will get through this and seek those friends that are closest to you because they too have gone through difficult times. We are not alone. Christopher Lewis [00:22:30]: If people want to find out more about you, where's the best place for them to go? Mike Stout [00:22:33]: They can go to my website, the Northland Adventurer, and send me an email there. I've got a nonprofit called Michigan Waterways Stewards. They could go there. It's wwwaterwaystwards.org or maybe contact you. Christopher Lewis [00:22:54]: Mike, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your story today. Thank you for getting out there and living that adventurous life. And I can live vicariously through your experiences as well as everyone else can as well. But I truly appreciate you sharing your journey today and I wish you all the best. Mike Stout [00:23:11]: Thank you. Christopher Lewis [00:23:12]: We know that no child comes with an instruction manual and most dads are figuring it out as they go along. And the Fatherhood Insider is full of resources and information that will up your game on Fatherhood. Through our extensive course library, interactive forum, step by step roadmaps and more, you will engage and learn with experts, but more importantly, dads like you. So check it out@fatheringtogether.org. If you are a father of a daughter and have not yet joined the Dads withdaughters Facebook community, there's a link in the notes. Today Dads withdaughters is a program of fathering together. Find out more@fatheringtogether.org. We look forward to having you back for another great guest next week. All geared to helping you raise strong, empowered daughters and be the best dad that you can be. Christopher Lewis [00:24:01]: We're all in the same boat and it's full of tiny screaming passengers. We spend the time we give the lessons we make the meals we buy them present. Bring your AC because those kids are growing fast. The time. Goes by just like a dynamite glass calling astronauts and firemen carpenters and muscle men get out and be the one to now be the best that you can be be the best that you can be you.  

State borders don't mean much to a migrating bird. But as part of North America's most-traveled bird migration route, known as the Mississippi Flyway, Minnesota hosts an incredible number and diversity of birds. A group in the town of Henderson is working to celebrate one species that darts and hovers through its garden near the Minnesota River. Beth Cornish is Treasurer of Henderson Feathers, an organization with a $6,000 grant to create a plan for a National Ruby Throated Hummingbird Center, with a goal of opening in spring 2024. The first in a series of strategic planning meetings is scheduled for Thursday, Sep. 9 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Henderson Community Building. MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Cornish about what this bird species means to the community.

Host and Outdoor News Managing Editor Rob Drieslein kicks off the show with Tim Spielman and a discussion on this summer's canine influenza outbreak, plus thoughts on the Talon Mine proposal in Aitkin County and the Upper Sioux Agency land swap. Then Tony Sindt from Minnesota DNR Fisheries visits to talk about paddlefish and the … Episode 442 – The greatest Great Lake's great lake herring year-class, plus canine influenza, the new Minnesota River plan, and looking ahead to Game Fair Read More » The post Episode 442 – The greatest Great Lake's great lake herring year-class, plus canine influenza, the new Minnesota River plan, and looking ahead to Game Fair appeared first on Outdoor News.

For thousands of years, the Dakota lived and worked at Traverse des Sioux, located on the lower Minnesota River. By the early 19th century, European American fur traders, missionaries, and adventurers were frequent visitors. Then in 1851, this site witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the US government and the Dakota. Read a book about rivers or river travel. In our show notes for this episode, we link each book to a couple of our state's great independent bookstores: Drury Lane Bookstore in Grand Marais. It gives you a description, so you can get more information about the book to help you make a decision about your reading aor recommendations.

Raw Fusion Fashion Show returns for its 11th year on May 12th. Raw Fusion is a fashion show build on innovation, community and creative energy while bringing awareness to the local building. Kaaren Grabianowski is our guest today on the podcast. Kaaren is the Executive Director of the MN River Builders, organizers of the event. She is sharing details on the fundraising aspect of the Raw Fusion, this year's theme and how to get tickets to the anticipated event! Raw Fusion Tickets: https://mnrba.com/raw-fusion/

On this week's hemp podcast, we focus on the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Morton, Minnesota. The Lower Sioux are part of the larger Dakota tribe, which once thrived in the Upper Midwest, following the bison herds across the Great Plains. The Lower Sioux Indian Community sits along the southern bank of the Minnesota River in southwestern Minnesota. The tribal land was greatly reduced after the Dakota War of 1862. Earl Pendleton, vice president of the tribal council, is the first guest on the podcast this week. Pendleton describes life on the reservation and how things have changed over the course of his life. “There's a lot of history in this area for the relations between the U.S. government, the state government and the Dakota people,” he said. “The U.S./Dakota conflict of 1862, which is 160 years ago, is still kind of fresh out here. And there's still a lot of tension between who we are and what we deserve.” “The reason for that conflict was people seeing their families starve and seeing their food sources being eliminated around them and the encroachment of settlers and things like that,” Pendleton said. The conflict led to some of the most brutal episodes in American history, including the public hanging of 38 Dakota warriors the day after Christmas 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. “Obviously, I don't blame anybody here today for that. But I think there's just a story that should be told. I think our our kids need to hear our real history and feel proud of who they are,' he said. One of the bright spots for Pendleton and the Lower Sioux Community is industrial hemp. 2023 is their fourth season of growing the crop. “We're at a pretty small scale,” Pendleton said. “We started at 40 acres, we moved up to 80 and 100, and I think we're doing 100 again this year. So we have a a stockpile of of hemp bales that are ready for processing.” The Sioux grow a dual-purpose variety called X59, which produces grain and fiber. The tribe sells the grain and processes the fiber on site with a 1-ton-per-hour decorticator. The vision is to use the hemp fiber to build houses for the community. Many homes are government housing, Pendleton said, and were not built with the best materials or with longevity in mind. And there is a shortage of housing too. “We have a lot of families living together, overcrowding, some homelessness,” he said. “So when I looked at hemp and seen that is a potential for construction, it seemed like the perfect fit for our community.” Working with HempStone, a hempcrete construction company from Massachusetts, the tribe is learning how to turn their hemp hurds into hemp housing. Last year the group completed a small shed as proof of concept. And this summer the tribe is building its first full-size home. The tribe is also building a home made from conventional materials to do a side-by-side comparison of energy efficiency. Danny Desjarlais is the project manager for the tribe's hemp-building endeavors, and also a guest on this week's podcast. A traditional builder by trade, he is a convert to building with hemp. “I don't want to use any traditional buildings anymore. You know, after discovering the hemp and the hempcrete and all of its benefits has just been very eye-opening for me as a builder,” he said. Desjarlais sees great potential in hemp for existing houses in the community. “We have 165 houses on our reservation right now; 160 of them probably need retrofitting or could be fixed up in some way,” he said. Desjarlais said the people of his community are very excited by the prospect of industrial hemp and the hope it brings. “Our people used to follow the buffalo, and we used every part of the buffalo, he said. “And so I look at hemp as like the green buffalo — we can use every part of the plant. And so we're only barely just scraping the surface right now with with growing and building houses out of it.” Lower Sioux Indian Community https://lowersioux.com/ HempStone https://hempstone.net/ Tell Your Senator You Support the 2023 Industrial Hemp Act If you think grain and fiber hemp farmers should be able to grow grain and fiber like they can grow corn and soy, then contact our senator and tell them to support the Industrial Hemp Act of 2023. https://www.hempexemption.com/contactcongress Thanks to our sponsors: Mpactful Ventures An investment and incubation company focused on sustainability and supporting startups and other initiatives that play a vital role in mitigating the adverse effects of climate change. At Mpactful ventures, they strive to amplify enterprises that bring innovative, green opportunities to the forefront and empower those making a significant impact for a sustainable future. https://www.mpactfulventures.org/ IND HEMP https://indhemp.com/

Welcome to Granite Falls, Minnesota! It's "More Than You Imagine!"  The town is located near the South Dakota border on the banks of the Minnesota River and is the seat of Yellow Medicine County.  In 1872 Henry Hill, founder of Granite Falls, built a grist mill, flour mill, and saw mill and gave free lots to draw settlers to the town.  Granite Falls began to thrive and a bridge was built 1876 to replace the ferry to cross the river.  The town currently has a population of 2,737.  Granite Falls is the hometown of Tanner Aus, a champion ProRodeo bareback rider.  Aus is currently ranked 16th in the world and is a major attraction in the town's upcoming Western Fest PRCA Stampede Rodeo to be held in June.  The town has been called home by a few other notables including Andrew Volstead, namesake of the Volstead Act of 1920 also known as the Prohibition Act.  We hope you enjoy our trip to Granite Falls!

3/15/23 - Madison Elklund is a paddler and adventurer. In 2022 she kayaked solo from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Hudson Bay, a journey of 1,700 miles.We talk kayaking, Hudson Bay, the far North, Lake Winnipeg, the Arctic, Red river of the North, Natalie, Warren, Hayes River Rapids, the world is a helpful place, Meeting good people, Norway House, York Boats, Oxford house, Traveling solo as a female, Walleye and pickerel fillets, camping under airports Minnesota River, Packs of bald eagles, Testing water quality, Wind tides and gnarly storms on Lake Winnipeg, Hudson Bay Company fur trading, Bear encounters during bathroom breaks, and writing a book. Check out Madison's site: Expeditionalpine.comIn Episode 36 Natalie Warren joins the show. She is mentioned numerous times in this episode. Listen to #36 w/ Natalie HEREBrought to you by:Camp Manito-Wish YMCAFor over 100 years Camp Manito-Wish in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin has continued to develop character and strengthen leadership skills of campers and staff through a wilderness based summer camp. Enroll a camper,join the Staff or find out more at www.Manito-Wish.orgSubscribe now for more stories of adventure. www.buffaloroamer.com

A West Central Tribune Minute feature story: The Cultural Diversity Council of the Upper Minnesota River Valley, now known as Diversity-USA.org, celebrates the area's cultural diversity with live performances that bring together people from different cultural backgrounds. 

A West Central Tribune Minute feature story: The Upper Minnesota River Valley counties have long been fertile soil for artists. A proposal to promote the arts for economic development in the rural setting has allowed many to discover the diverse and talented crop of artists through the annual Meander Arts Crawl.

A West Central Tribune Minute feature story: Leah Cook, the second artist-in-residence for the city of Granite Falls, has set ambitious goals to produce art around the Minnesota River and build community engagement. How the invisible shapes the visible is the underlying theme for her works in progress.

Back by popular demand, The Water Table podcast host Jamie Duininck checks in with Midwest farmers to see how harvest is going. In part one of this four-part series, he talks to Karl Guetter, Prinsco's National Agriculture Segment Lead, who also farms in South Central Minnesota. They discuss a surprising fall after a very late start in the spring, how climate change is affecting the growing season and how conditions in South Central Minnesota are perfect this fall for making preparations for next year, including getting pipe in the ground.About the Guest: Karl Guetter has nearly 20 years of experience in the ag industry and, being an active farmer himself, is a true advocate for managing water on the farm. Karl is an active farmer and the Agricultural Segment Lead at Prinsco. He's passionate about issues facing rural America and the ag community– his experience gives him a unique perspective on what pushes farmers to manage their water, how the demand for tiling has changed and increased over the years, and why tile is critical for the sustainability and profitability of farms in the future.Want more? Check out these related episodes from The Water Table: https://www.watertable.ag/podcast/ep-55/https://www.watertable.ag/podcast/ep-53/Follow us on social media! FB:  https://m.facebook.com/thewatertableag/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thewatertableag/Website:  https://www.watertable.ag/the-podcast/Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1538507698Subscribe to our Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/001MKyL5nMw6jUpuuz9aGdListen on Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMzg5OTEwLnJzcw== Episode Topics:0:00 Welcome to The Water Table Podcast0:33 Karl Guetter, farmer in South Central Minnesota1:09 A surprising fall after a very wet spring1:23 Ahead of schedule and phenomenal harvest weather2:30 Climate change; from 20 springs ago until now3:06 Soybean harvest is done; variable due to land4:10 Redwood County, a stark difference east to west.5:00 The Minnesota River – what does it do to the weather?6:20 Corn harvest is going well, wrapping up soon7:15 Next year's plan, looking at market fluctuations, what varieties performed well and dirt to fertility and drainage8:56 Opportunities for preparations for next year. Get that pipe in the ground!9:50 Wrapping up – have a safe harvest!More Episodes & Water Management Education:https://www.watertable.ag/the-podcast/

The Mississippi River, the wild and scenic St. Croix River, the Minnesota River, not to mention habitat, ecology, tourism and the economy, would all be impacted if invasive carp are able to gain a foothold in Minnesota.  The Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Finance held an informational hearing to review potential solutions to control the influx of the invasive fish, and Committee Chair Bill Ingebrigtsen, R-Alexandria, joins Capitol Report moderator Shannon Loehrke to discuss the state's options.A leading figure from Minnesota's territory days through its early statehood is Henry Hastings Sibley, the state's first governor.  Brian Pease of the Minnesota Historical Society talks with Shannon about Sibley's role in Minnesota's history.Also in the program, Governor Tim Walz and law enforcement officials toured the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and discussed recent efforts to address crime and gun violence.

A West Central Tribune Minute feature story: For 21 years, the Lac qui Parle Mission, overlooking the Minnesota River, provided both education and Christian religion to members of the Dakota. Nearly 170 years later the memory of the mission is still commemorated by the reconstructed mission building in the Lac qui Parle State Park and in the annual Mission Sunday service. 

Luke Gorski has been to every state park in South Dakota and Iowa. This summer, Gorski has a goal to visit all 66 state parks in Minnesota. Heidi Holtan and John Latimer have been visiting with Luke each week as he treks across the state in pursuit of his goal to find out what Luke is seeing, which trails he is hiking, and how bad the mosquitos are. Join Luke, Heidi, and John as they learn more about Luke's adventures in our KAXE/KBXE series Just a Day in the Park.

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights –Sequoia Hauck's Gift for Decolonizing the Process of Art-MakingOn today's show, we talk with Sequoia Hauck (they/them), a Native (Anishinaabe/Hupa) queer multidisciplinary artist based in the Twin Cities. Sequoia's art-making includes theater, filmmaking, poetry, and performance art, with all of it centered on a decolonized creative process.Sequoia shares details of their upcoming art installation, which is happening as the closing event of Northern Spark. Their project is a large-scale installation of two cloth rivers that span what is now Raspberry Island in Imnížaska Othúŋwe/Ashkibagi-ziibiing (St. Paul). The cloth rivers are replicas of Ȟaȟáwakpa/Gichi-ziibi (Mississippi River) and Mnísota Wakpá/Ashkibagi-ziibi (Minnesota River).Miigwech, Sequoia! We loved hearing about your passion for connecting to ancestors, building community through performance art, and finding healing and resiliency through our relationship to water and its movement and stillness.Northern Spark is happening on Saturday, June 11th from 9p through 5:30a.http://northern.lights.mn/platform/northern-spark-2022/https://2022.northernspark.org/art-and-events/Sequoia Hauck's website is here: https://www.sequoiahauck.com/Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

Serwer Discord podkastu Naukowo już działa! Będziemy się starali stworzyć tam społeczność ludzi, którzy naukę lubią i szanują, a czasem się z nią nie zgadzają oraz chcą o niej dyskutować w miłym gronie. Mamy mnóstwo tematycznych działów, miłych moderatorów i chęć do stworzenia przyjaznego miejsca dla dyskusji i na tematy naukowe, dzielenia się wiedzą i nowościami z naukowego świata - dołącz do nas https://discord.gg/mqsjM5THXrDwudziesty odcinek zaczniemy od przytulanek, sprawdzimy czym grożą uszkodzenia sprzętu podczas kosmicznych podróży oraz co można znaleźć podczas wypraw kajakowych, a na koniec odkryjemy, dlaczego przegrzebki lubią dyskotekę.A jeśli uznasz, że warto wspierać ten projekt to zapraszam do serwisu Patronite, każda dobrowolna wpłata od słuchaczy pozwoli mi na rozwój i doskonalenie tego podkastu, bardzo dziękuję za każde wsparcie!Zapraszam również na Facebooka, Twittera i Instagrama, każdy lajk i udostępnienie pomoże w szerszym dotarciu do słuchaczy, a to jest teraz moim głównym celem :)Źródła użyte przy tworzeniu odcinka:Gesa Berretz, Chantal Cebula, Blanca Maria Wortelmann, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Oliver T. Wolf, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Julian Packheiser, "Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after acute stress induction in women but not in men", https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266887William Harwood, "ISS spacesuits ‘no-go' for non-emergency spacewalks after water intrusion", https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/05/17/iss-spacesuits-no-go-for-non-emergency-spacewalks-after-water-intrusion/CACI Company Release, CACI Announces Successful Demonstration of Optical Intersatellite Links in Low Earth Orbit", https://investor.caci.com/news/news-details/2022/CACI-Announces-Successful-Demonstration-of-Optical-Intersatellite-Links-in-Low-Earth-Orbit/default.aspxNASA, "Space Debris and Human Spacecraft", https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.htmlEduardo Medina, "Human Skull About 8,000 Years Old Is Found in Minnesota River", https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/minnesota-human-skull.htmlAnna Turns, "Accidental discovery that scallops love ‘disco' lights leads to new fishing technique", https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/18/accidental-discovery-that-scallops-love-disco-lights-leads-to-new-fishing-techniqueRobert Enever, Philip D. Doherty, Jon Ashworth, Mark Duffy, Pete Kibel, Melanie Parker, Bryce D. Stewart, Brendan J. Godley, "Scallop potting with lights: A novel, low impact method for catching European king scallop (Pecten maximus)", https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2022.106334Przegrzebki wskakujące do oświetlonych klatek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2L7l1n5YAPhoto by Brittani Burns on Unsplash

Theophile Bruguier was a fur trader who moved south out of Monreal after a stint as an attorney in Quebec before his fiancé died. He became friends with Chief War Eagle of the Yankton Sioux. We call him Chief, but he left the Santee rather than have a bloody fight over who would be the next chief. The Santee were being pushed down from the Great Lakes area of Minnesota and Wisconsin by the growing Ojibwe and were pushing further and further south. There are two main divisions of the Sioux people: the Dakota and the Lakota. There are two main ethnic groups of the Dakota, the Eastern, sometimes called the Santee and the Western, or the Yankton. After the issues with the his native Santee, he was welcomed by the Yankton, where he had two wives and seven children.  Chief War Eagle then spent time with the white people moving into the area in greater and greater numbers. They even went to war and he acted as a messenger for them in the War of 1812 and then became a messenger for the American Fur Company and a guide along the Missouri. After the war, he was elected a chief and helped negotiate peace treaties. He married two of his daughters off to Theophile Bruguier, who he sailed the Missouri with on trips between St Louis and Fort Pierre in the Dakota territory.  The place where Theophile settled was where the Big Sioux and Missouri rivers meet. Two water ways for trade made his cabin a perfect place to trade, and the chief died a couple of years later and was buried in what we now call War Eagle Park, a beautiful hike above Sioux City. His city. Around the same time, the Sioux throughout the Minnesota River were moved to South Dakota to live on reservations, having lost their lands and war broke out in the 1860s.  Back at the Bruguier land, more French moved into the area after Bruguier opened a trading post and was one of the 17 white people that voted in the first Woodbury County election, once Wahkaw County was changed to Woodbury to honor Levi Woodbury, a former Supreme Court Justice.  Bruguier sold some of his land to Joseph Leonais in 1852. He sold it to a land surveyor, Dr. John Cook, who founded Sioux City in 1854. By 1860, with the westward expansion of the US, the population had already risen to 400. Steamboats, railroads, livestock yards, and by 1880 they were over 7,000 souls, growing to 6 times that by the time Bruguier died in 1896. Seemingly more comfortable with those of the First Nations, his body is interred with Chief War Eagle and his first two wives on the bluffs overlooking Sioux City, totally unrecognizable by then. The goods this new industry brought had to cross the rivers. Before there were bridges to cross the sometimes angry rivers, ranchers had to ferry cattle across. Sometimes cattle fell off the barges and once they were moving, they couldn't stop for a single head of cattle. Ted Waitt's ancestors rescued cattle and sold them, eventually homesteading their own ranch. And that ranch is where Ted started Gateway Computers in 1985 with his friend Mike Hammond.  Michael Dell started Dell computers in 1984 and grew the company on the backs of a strong mail order business. He went from selling repair services and upgrades to selling full systems. He wasn't the only one to build a company based on a mail and phone order business model in the 1980s and 1990s. Before the internet that was the most modern way to transact business.  Ted Waitt went to the University of Iowa in Iowa City a couple of years before Michael Dell went to the University of Texas. He started out in marketing and then spent a couple of years working for a reseller and repair store in Des Moines before he decided to start his own company. Gateway began life in 1985 as the Texas Instruments PC Network, or TIPC Network for short. They sold stuff for Texas Instruments computers like modems, printers, and other peripherals. The TI-99/4A had been released in 1979 and was discontinued a year before. It was a niche hobbyist market even by then, but the Texas Instruments Personal Computer had shipped in 1983 and came with an 8088 CPU. It was similar to an IBM PC and came with a DOS. But Texas Instruments wasn't a clone maker and the machines weren't fully Personal Computer compatible. Instead, there were differences.  They found some success and made more than $100,000 in just a few months, so brought in Tedd's brother Norm. Compaq, Dell, and a bunch of other companies were springing up to build computers. Anyone who had sold parts for an 8088 and used DOS on it knew how to build a computer. And after a few years of supplying parts, they had a good idea how to find inexpensive components to build their own computers. They could rescue parts and sell them to meatpacking plants as full-blown computers. They just needed some Intel chips, some boards, which were pretty common by then, some RAM, which was dirt cheap due to a number of foreign companies dumping RAM into the US market. They built some computers and got up to $1 million in revenue in 1986. Then they became an IBM-compatible personal computer when they found the right mix of parts. It was close to what Texas Instruments sold, but came with a color monitor and two floppy disk drives, which were important in that era before all the computers came with spinning hard drives. Their first computer sold for just under $2,000, which made it half what a Texas Instruments computer cost. They found the same thing that Dell had found: the R&D and marketing overhead at big companies meant they could be more cost-competitive. They couldn't call the computers a TIPC Network though. Sioux City, Iowa became the Gateway to the Dakotas, and beyond, so they changed their name to Gateway 2000.  Gateway 2000 then released an 80286, which we lovingly called the 286, in 1988 and finally left the ranch to move into the city. They also put Waitt's marketing classes to use and slapped a photo of the cows from the ranch in a magazine that said “Computers from Iowa?” and one of the better tactics for long-term loyalty, they gave cash bonuses to employees based on their profits. Within a year, they jumped to $12 million in sales. Then $70 million in 1989, and moved to South Dakota in 1990 to avoid paying state income tax. The cow turned out to be popular, so they kept Holstein cows in their ads and even added them to the box. Everyone knew what those Gateway boxes looked like. Like Dell, they hired great tech support who seemed to love their jobs at Gateway and would help with any problems people found. They brought in the adults in 1990. Executives from big firms. They had been the first to Mae color monitors standard and now, with the release of Windows they became the first big computer seller to standardize on the platform.  They released a notebook computer in 1992. The HandBook was their first computer that didn't do well. It could have been the timing, but in the midst of a recession in a time when most households were getting computers, a low cost computer sold well and sales hit $1 billion. Yet they had trouble scaling to their ship hundreds of computers a day. They opened an office in Ireland and ramped up sales overseas. Then they went public in 1993, raising $150 million. The Wiatt's hung on to 85% of the company and used the capital raised in the IPO to branch into other areas to complete the Gateway offering: modems, networking equipment, printers, and more support representatives.  Sales in 1994 hit $2.7 billion a year. They added another support center a few hours down the Missouri River in Kansas City. They opened showrooms. They added a manufacturing plant in Malaysia. They bought Osborne Computer. They opened showrooms and by 1996 Gateway spent tens of millions a year in advertising. The ads worked and they became a household name. They became a top ten company in computing with $5 billion in sales. Dell was the only direct personal computer supplier who was bigger.  They opened a new sales channel: the World Wide Web. Many still called after they looked up prices at first but by 1997 they did hundreds of millions in sales on the web. By then, Ethernet had become the standard network protocol so they introduced the E-Series, which came with networks. They bought Advanced Logic Research to expand into servers. They launched a dialup provider called gateway.net.  By the late 1990s, the ocean of companies who sold personal computers was red. Anyone could head down to the local shop, buy some parts, and build their own personal computer. Dell, HP, Compaq, and others dropped their prices and Gateway was left needing a new approach. Three years before Apple opened their first store, Gateway launched Gateway Country, retail stores that sold the computer, the dialup service, and they went big fast, launching 58 stores in 26 states in a short period of time. With 2000 right around the corner, they also changed their name to Gateway, Inc. Price pressure continued to hammer away at them and they couldn't find talent so they moved to San Diego.  1999 proved a pivotal year for many in technology. The run-up to the dot com bubble meant new web properties popped up constantly. AOL had more capital than they could spend and invested heavily into Gateway to take over the ISP business, which had grown to over half a million subscribers. They threw in free Internet access with the computers, opened more channels into different sectors, and expanded the retail stores to over 200. Some thought Waitt needed to let go and let someone with more executive experience come in. So long-time AT&T exec Jeff Weitzen, who had joined the company in 1998 took over as CEO. By then Waitt was worth billions and it made sense that maybe he could go run a cattle ranch. By then his former partner Mike Hammond had a little business fixing up cars so why not explore something new.  Waitt stayed on as chairman as Weitzen reorganized the company. But the prices of computers continued to fall. To keep up, Gateway released the Astro computer in 2000. This was an affordable, small desktop that had a built-in monitor, CPU, and speakers. It ran a 400 MHz Intel Celeron, had a CD-ROM, and a 4.3 GB hard drive, with 64 Megabytes of memory, a floppy, a modem, Windows 98 Second Edition, Norton Anti-Virus, USB ports, and the Microsoft Works Suite. All this came in at $799. Gateway had led the market with Windows and other firsts they jumped on board with. They had been aggressive. The first iMac had been released in 1998 and this seemed like they were following that with a cheaper computer. Gateway Country stores grew over 400+ stores. But the margins had gotten razor thin. That meant profits were down. Waitt came back to run the company, the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges for fraud against Weitzen, the former controller, and the former CFO, and that raged on for years. In that time, Gateway got into TVs, cameras, MP3 players, and in 2004 acquired eMachines, a rapidly growing economy PC manufacturer. Their CEO, Wayne Inouye then came in to run Gateway. He had been an executive at The Good Guys! and Best Buy before taking the helm of eMachines in 2001, helping them open sales channels in retail stores. But Gateway didn't get as much a foothold in retail. That laptop failure from the 1980s stuck with Gateway. They never managed to ship a game-changing laptop. Then the market started to shift to laptops. Other companies left on that market but Gateway never seemed able to ship the right device. They instead branched into consumer electronics. The dot com bubble burst and they never recovered. The financial woes with the SEC hurt trust in the brand. The outsourcing hurt the trust in the brand. The acquisition of a budget manufacturer hurt the brand. Apple managed to open retail stores to great success, while preserving relationships with big box retailers. But Gateway lost that route to market when they opened their own stores. Then Acer acquired Gateway in 2007. They can now be found at Walmart, having been relaunched as a budget brand of Acer, a company who the big American firms once outsourced to, but who now stands on their own two feed as a maker of personal computers.

Scott Mackenthun is the Hutchinson Area Fisheries Supervisor as well as a well known outdoor writer, so we have a lot to talk about! He discusses southern Minnesota fishing, including flathead cats and Minnesota River fishing. Plus, we discuss more panfish changes on the way, an exciting out of state hunting and fishing trips and a ton of other topics. Great stuff on today's podcast!

SPEAKERSJim du Bois, Kenny Blumenfeld Jim du Bois 00:00Well, somebody's about to get pounded. This is Way Over Our Heads. It's a weather and climate podcast. I'm Jim du Bois, Kenny Blumenfeld's a climatologist. Kenny, where you kind of roused from your sleep in the early morning hours of Tuesday, August 24 by rumbling and the sound of something we haven't heard very often this spring and summer...raindrops and, in my case, a NOAA Weather Radio awakened me before the storm actually got here. Kenny Blumenfeld 00:28Yeah, I'm glad that you have that available. Everybody should have a NOAA Weather Radio, just like you have a smoke detector. Because, you know, when the storms come up in the middle of the night, how else are you going to know, and sometimes you need to get to safety. So yeah, Jim I, I woke up to the sound of thunder and rain. And then when I looked out the window, there was some wind too. It was quite a storm. You know, and it dropped some decent precipitation across parts of southern Minnesota, right around an inch in most of the Twin Cities area, but areas to the south got anywhere from an inch and a half to three inches of rain, not far from Northfield over towards Red Wing, and then out into parts of Sibley and Renville Counties. So, it was a nice rainfall event. And of course, there had been some, some other rains over the past week in parts in northwestern Minnesota. So, not a bad week--at least in the context of the dry conditions--has not so far been a bad week. Jim du Bois 01:33Well, here in the backyard rain gauge, we had 1.22 inches of rain on Tuesday morning. And probably the most dramatic indication of the power of that rainfall was the effect on Minnehaha Creek which happens to flow right behind our house. And I had taken a photo literally standing in the creek bed the day before, that'd be Monday, August 23, And it was virtually entirely dry. And I took another photo in the exact same location, although not standing in the creek bed because the creek bed now had water in it and water flowing at a pretty impressive rate. So, that to me was even beyond what I saw on my rain gauge that really drove home just how impactful that rain was. Kenny Blumenfeld 02:20Yeah, you know, Minnehaha Falls had been basically shut off. I mean, it was reduced to just a trickle like a, you know, like a faucet leak essentially over the weekend. And so, to have it flowing and raging, I think the falls would probably be on the very low end of of what's kind of normal the day after that rain. But it's good to know that the creek came back to life a little bit anyway. Jim du Bois 02:48Yeah, it was pretty impressive. Well, Kenny, was that kind of the debut performance of a series of rainfall events and possibly severe weather events we will see over the next several days? Kenny Blumenfeld 03:00Yeah, it's a, that's a good way of putting it. Jim, I would say that the, you know, so that was Tuesday, then we kind of took Wednesday off, didn't have much. And now on Thursday, when we're recording this, we're kind of looking ahead to a fairly intense rainfall event in parts of southern Minnesota. Don't know exactly where, there's all kinds of uncertainty, even just hours ahead of it. And then kind of a, you know, on and off fairly busy weekend covering a little bit more of the state. So yeah, I think that, you know, you could say that that was a Roman numeral one or I. And now, and then, and then the main event is right now, is going to happen Thursday afternoon and evening and overnight. And then there'll be other follow up events. I mean, these all have some potential for severe weather. But, you know, I think meteorologically, the most interesting aspect is the potential for the first system, the one on Thursday night, to produce some extraordinary rainfall amounts. Jim du Bois 04:06Are we talking the possibility of flash flooding in certain areas? Kenny Blumenfeld 04:12I think that's accurate. You know, there's a little bit of a disconnect in some of the official products that we're seeing. And when we say products, of course, we're talking about basically, the way that the weather gets summarized by some official forecasting entity, usually part of the National Weather Service. And one of the products that we look at a lot that anybody who follows the weather looks at is this excessive rainfall risk. And it actually is very similar to the severe weather risk categories that the Storm Prediction Center uses. This is a different arm within NOAA. It's called the Weather Prediction Center. It used to be the Hydro Meteorological Prediction Center, but I think that, that wasn't very, that wasn't very friendly to lay populations so they changed it to the Weather Prediction Center. But they do most of the, the large area rainfall forecasting, and they have, they have much of Minnesota, southern half or so of Minnesota and then the northern half or so of Iowa and the western third or so of Wisconsin in a slight risk for excessive rainfall. When they say excessive rain, they mean rain that exceeds the current flash flood guidance. And what that means is that the rainfall rates, there's a slight chance that the rainfall rate, and that would be a 10 to 20% chance that rainfall rates would actually be high enough to exceed capacity and cause some flash flooding. The reason I said that there's a disconnect is I think that that slight risk area that they're using actually is also being used to express some uncertainty. We don't know exactly where the heaviest rains will be. But some of the, some of the models, Jim, have been showing very, very high rainfall totals up to, you know, eight, nine inches in narrow swaths. And of course, these swaths have been anywhere from entral Iowa up to central Minnesota. And so, that's the uncertainty is we don't know exactly where the heaviest rain will be. If I had to guess it would be somewhere along or south of that western arm of the Minnesota River into far southern Minnesota. And it might not be as high as, you know, some of those models might be getting a little bit carried away, but there's a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. And so, the conditions are at least supportive for some training thunderstorms. Those are the repeat thunderstorms that kind of form and move over the same areas, and also for very high rainfall rates during those thunderstorms. So, you know, we could be looking at a major flood event in at least a small area. And of course, this is inside one of the driest summers we've had in a long time. So, it's kind of surreal to be talking about it. Jim du Bois 07:01Now, when we're running a significant soil moisture deficit as we are this summer, what happens when it rains heavily? Now, we would tend to think that if the soil is dry, it might absorb the rain, like a sponge, but the reality may be something very different. Is it like the first inch of rain maybe will be absorbed like a sponge, and then any rainfall amount beyond that begins to run off? I mean, it seems almost counterintuitive because you would logically think if soil was saturated with moisture, then additional rains would run off. But it sounds like the contrary might be the case. Kenny Blumenfeld 07:40Yeah, I mean, I, you know, honestly, there's going to be soil physicists and hydrologists, who who probably understand these processes better than I do, but I think the harder it rains, well first of all, when it's really dry, we've seen this before, too, when it's really dry, and you have dried dusty topsoil, which is certainly the case in some parts of Minnesota, then actually, the first thing that happens is the heavy rain doesn't even soak into that topsoil, it just washes it away. And that's definitely not great. That's something that you want. So, you actually get some erosion from the heavy rain because there's nothing kind of binding the topsoil down to the rest of the profile. But beyond that, it kind of depends on the rainfall rate. You know, if we were to get a really slow, you know, if we were to get several inches of additional rain but say distributed over a month, which is kind of what the DNR, that's sort of the DNR's message that if we made up five to eight inches over the course of a month, that would significantly alleviate drought conditions, because over the course of a month, there's probably enough time for the soils to absorb a lot of that moisture. I think another way you could look at it as you know, rather than getting it all at once, you'd prefer to have it over a prolonged period of weeks, or even months. So, when you get it all at once, I don't know what the exact quantity is that goes in, it's going to be determined by the rate but you're going to get some of the moisture into the soil but it can only go in so fast. And so then what doesn't make it into the soil while sort of waiting to percolate down, that is then going to start forming puddles and start running off, and that's when you get extra, and especially in urban areas where you have more pavement than soil, you're going to see a lot of runoff if, if it's raining really hard. So, I don't know the exact answer, Jim, but I would say you know, if you are getting several inches of rain in a 24 hour period, don't expect the majority of it to go into, you know, replenish your groundwater and and your soil moisture but expect a lot of it to run off instead. Jim du Bois 09:51So in other words, if we're thinking this great rainfall that's coming is going to pull us out of the drought situation, not going to happen, correct? Kenny Blumenfeld 09:59Yeah. I mean, you know, it's certainly going to have the potential to undo, or at least, maybe start reducing some of those major deficits in whichever areas get hit the hardest. I think that the long term deficits numerically might get reduced or even in small areas, erased. But that wouldn't necessarily end the drought for those people. Because, again, those are just precipitation deficits. It doesn't account for the this, you know, we've had months and months and months to deplete soil moisture and to deplete the groundwater, the aquifers, those kind of underwater lakes, or underground lakes. And we've had months and months and months to drop the river stream and lake levels. And that's going to all take time to get back. And those are, of course, the major indicators of drought. So yeah, I wouldn't, you know, pin your hopes on getting out of drought with one event, even if the numbers in small areas do support, you know, the deficit being gone. Remember, if it rains really hard, somewhere, within a few days, all that water that fell, or a lot of that water that fell is going to be off in some stream or river 500 miles away. So. it's not entirely local. Jim du Bois 11:19Well, Kenny, we are recording this on the morning of Thursday, August 26. And it looks like for each of the next three days, we in parts of Minnesota are going to have the risk of severe weather. And it looks like from the forecast discussions from the National Weather Service that all modes of severe weather potentially might come into the mix. So, what do you think, is this going to be pretty isolated, popping up in very isolated areas? Or could it be something on a grander scale? Kenny Blumenfeld 11:52Yeah, I think that, you know, for Thursday, the Storm Prediction Center definitely is looking at the Minnesota-Iowa border as having the highest risk. And that's the area that's going to be the warmest, have the most instability, and that's the area where I think the strong winds in particular, from the squall line would, would tend to be most likely. And that also seems to be the case as we get into Friday because there will be an additional round of storms. But there's, on both of those days, there's a marginal risk for severe weather that does extend up into the Twin Cities area roughly. And then we get into the weekend. And it appears that we have another risk for severe weather on Saturday afternoon, and that covers more of Minnesota. That, that covers the St. Cloud and Twin Cities area. And this, of course will change also, as we get more information, and as some of the forecast confidence increases on where the storms will be. But yeah, I think that in addition to heavy rains over the next three days, you're going to see the potential for some storms to produce hail, high winds, and and even isolated tornadoes. The winds aloft, especially in central and northern Minnesota, are actually pretty strong. And that would be conducive to organizing some of the thunderstorms so that they could either form really large, powerful storm complexes, or even in some cases become supercell thunderstorms. The only real limitation there is that where those strongest winds aloft occur, we might not see the most instability, might be a little cool, not quite humid enough. So, there's not a perfect match there. But it looks like a busy, kind of active weekend. I would say the biggest rainfall event looks like it would be Thursday into Friday morning where there is a potential for some flash flooding and very heavy rains, at least in narrow axes of southern Minnesota somewhere with maybe a more general one to two inch soaking rain type event surrounding that generally in the southern third, maybe southern half of Minnesota, but then additional rainfall chances as we get into Friday afternoon, and then again on Saturday afternoon. And we, you know, might take a couple days off and get back in business again on, as we get into next week. So it's a busy, active time. Jim du Bois 14:17Well, definitely keep an eye on the sky and an ear to your favorite source or an eye to your favorite source of weather information and be aware of the potential for severe weather. Let's hope we get some much needed rain but obviously not to the extreme point where we get flash flooding. So, hopefully it hits, it hits that sweet spot. Kenny Blumenfeld 14:37Yeah, I wish I could promise that. One of the things that the storm has is a huge amount of what meteorologists called precipitable water. That's basically if you take all of the moisture in the atmosphere, if you were able to just turn that into rain, some of the precipitable water quantities coming off of these climate models will be approaching, you know, all time highs for the date. And so, there's a lot of moisture, it's kind of highly anomalous or unusual quantities of moisture. And because of the mechanisms with these storms, they will have the ability to stay in place. So, I do think that at least localized flash flooding is very likely somewhere in southern Minnesota. But, you know, let's hope that surrounding that there's just a kind of general widespread soaking rain that could be quite beneficial to at least start, you know, or help dent further the ongoing drought conditions. Jim du Bois 15:38Well, Kenny, always great chatting with you and look forward to talking with you again early next week. Kenny Blumenfeld 15:45Very good. Thanks, Jim. You have a good rest of your day. Jim du Bois 15:48You as well, Kenny. This is Way Over Our Heads. It's a weather and climate podcast. I'm Jim du Bois. Kenny Blumenfeld is a climatologist. We'll see you next time.

We are so excited to be sharing this time with fellow Minnesotain, Michelle Kaisersatt!  With art and design being the cornerstone to Michelle’s history, clay became her new voice when she was 35 years old.  Working with clay, Michelle began to carve a niche for herself: organically designed and hand-carved sculptural cremation urns.  Feeling a kinship to those seeking to honor loved ones who had crossed over, creating urns was a humble part of Michelle’s journey. Then, over the course of the last decade, Michelle learned some very personal life lessons of her own… Today, Michelle continues to boldly express her voice in her clay work. And now, through her written work—she shares a powerful message—with nature—as the messenger.  Michelle lives on the bluffs of the Minnesota River in southern Minnesota. Wrapped in the arms of nature, she is expanding her wings…sharing “I am right here beside you.”... Website: The Soul Remains. www.thesoulremains.com Facebook & Instagram @thesoulremains Business name: Soul Work Contact: Michelle@thesoulremains.com Michelle has given us a generous coupon code to share with our liisteners! To find my book: Dear One A Message of Love, about Grief, Loss, and the Art of Healing, find a special $5 off coupon with the code: PureHope The purchase includes gift wrap, a special blank notecard, and a signed copy of Dear One. Retail at my shop is $24.95 - which includes all of the above and shipping fees and tax. It is also available on Amazon for $21.95 – but tax and shipping are extra. (Copy is not signed, no gift notecard, and no wrapping :D when purchased through Amazon.)

When Mark Erickson’s combine got stuck in the muck, he knew he needed to unearth a different relationship with the land. Mark Erickson was interviewed as part of the We Are Water initiative, which documented the stories of several farmers in the upper reaches of the Minnesota River watershed who are using innovative production methods…  Read More → Source

We are suggesting books you might enjoy for our Goodreads group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We give you a prompt connected to each state park, and you find a book to fulfill the challenge. You can use one of our suggestions, and you should feel free to read any book!   This is the final book of our series! Yes, that’s right, we’ve looked at all the parks across Minnesota in this challenge.  But we aren’t done talking about books! Tune in next Tuesday, and we will start sharing books prompted by interesting facts about Minnesota counties. To end our series, we look at a set of books we always enjoy! We start at MN Valley State Recreation Area , established in 1969. This park is in the Minnesota River Valley, and the multi-use Minnesota Valley State Trail parallels the Minnesota River here. Celebrate this extensive use of the name by enjoying a book set in Minnesota, or by a Minnesota author.   To celebrate this week, we are sharing some of our favorite Minnesota books or series. We give you links to each of these books on our show notes page, taking you to Amazon.com. If you click on any of them, and buy anything at all - including a nice book - Amazon will send us a small percent of the profits they made on these sales. Thank you for supporting CMLE!

In this episode, we have another one of our great Catholics at the Capitol features in which we talk with a Catholic who is living out their call to faithful citizenship right here in Minnesota. We’ll be speaking with Mike Franklin, the new Mayor of Jordan Minnesota – a great small town in Scott County on the Minnesota River. Mike knows many sides of Government Affairs as he has organized projects for political candidates, nonprofit organizations, multinational corporations and Grassroots-level community interests. Having served his employers and clients as a fundraiser, lobbyist, communications professional, issue expert, researcher and volunteer recruiter. In our mailbag segment we answer a question about people who have migrated to the United States. And of course, we want to leave you with some practical tips on how you can start to put your faith into action. In our bricklayer segment, we further examine how you can engage with politics on the local level.

Robert Larsen has waited years for the Minnesota Historical Society to return 114 acres of land to the Dakota people of the Lower Sioux Indian Community. When the unanimous vote finally came this year, Larsen was watching on his computer. As soon as it was official, he drove to the spot off of County Highway 2, east of Redwood Falls. He said a prayer, sang a song and made an offering of tobacco. “Steps towards healing is what we need,” Larsen, the tribe's chair, said. “And this is one of those steps.” This land is part of the Lower Sioux Indian Community's homeland, C̣aƞṡayapi, and until last month, it was controlled by the state. The historic site commemorates the start of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. The conflict began when the United States refused to distribute to the Dakota people the food and supplies stored there, violating its treaty. Documentary 'Little War on the Prairie' The war between Dakota tribes and the U.S. government lasted six weeks. After it ended, President Abraham Lincoln ordered 38 Dakota men hanged in Mankato, the largest single-day execution in the country's history. “This land has been paid for over and over and over with the blood and the lives of our ancestors,” Larsen said. Hannah Yang | MPR News A sign in the Dakota language welcomes visitors to C̣aƞṡayapi, the name of the Lower Sioux Indian Community's homeland, along County Road 24 in Redwood County. The historical society bought the property from private landowners starting in the 1960s. Its return to Lower Sioux Indian Community was a culmination of talks that began in 2004. Local government officials were skeptical about the change, Larsen said. The land transfer ultimately required the involvement of the state Legislature, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the federal government and 31 different tribal nations. Lower Sioux Agency Lonely outpost marks war's start Photos The U.S.-Dakota War, remembered MPR News coverage The U.S.-Dakota War, 150 years later “Preserving our state's history doesn't always have to mean the Minnesota Historical Society is doing that all by ourselves,” said Ben Leonard, who oversees the historical society's portfolio of sites outside of the Twin Cities and is pleased the Lower Sioux Community now controls the site. “That is their history. That is their story,” Larsen's family was involved throughout the long process of reclaiming the land. His father and great-aunt were there from the start, and he says many community members deserve credit for the achievement. “If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here,” he said. In February, tribal citizens accepted the transferred land on behalf of their ancestors. “By reclaiming some of our traditional homelands, we're expanding the opportunity for our generations to have a broader connection to their Dakota identity,” said Cheyanne St. John, the community's historic preservation officer. “It was certainly a milestone within our nation's history. The Minnesota Historical Society will still help maintain the interpretative trails on the site and for now, the tribe plans to leave the property mostly unchanged. Its goal is to encourage more visitors to visit and learn about Dakota history. It's an unusual move for the state to return a historic site to the tribe that once owned it, but Larsen hopes it is only the beginning. “To get back to that relationship with the land is important to us,” he said. History we don't teach Mankato hangings an uneasy topic for MN schools On 150th anniversary Feelings last long over U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 Hannah Yang is MPR News' newest regional news reporter. She covers the communities south of the Minnesota River in southwestern Minnesota, from the South Dakota border all the way to Mankato and south to Iowa. She's new to the region, and would love to hear your stories. Share news tips, ideas or just say hello at @HannahMYang on Twitter, or email her at hyang@mpr.org.

If you've ever wondered what to do with your summer and considered (1) making history, (2) spending the whole thing on a wild 2,000-mile canoe trip, and (3) putting your relationship with your best friend to the ultimate test, then you know exactly what author Natalie Warren has experienced. In the summer after graduating college, Natalie and Ann Raiho set off on the banks of the Minnesota River with the ultimate goal of reaching the Arctic waters of Canada's Hudson Bay in 90 days or less. Natalie writes all about their journey in her book HUDSON BAY BOUND, and is here today to chat with another history-making explorer, Ann Bancroft, who, along with Liv Arnesen, were the first two women to cross Antarctica. This conversation was recorded in October 2020. More on Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic: z.umn.edu/hudsonbaybound. More on Ann Bancroft's historic journey across Antarctica: z.umn.edu/nohorizon

Bozena Scheidel grew up above the Minnesota River. If you walked down the hill, you would get to the memorial for the Dakota 38.

Brad expresses his gratefulness for rock ‘n roll, leading to stories of first concerts and festival devolution, and another review by RC of his experience of scale invariance over the Minnesota River within the Ice Age River Warren channel. We then get back into the formation of drumlins and the problem of scale, while revealing massive swarms in and around Lake Ontario, which includes a deep basin that seems an emanation point for the radial Finger Lakes of central New York State. Amazing scenes abound in the many glens and gorges that feed into those long, narrow lakes, showing sudden catastrophic erosion. Finally, RC jumps back to the radial drumlin fields formed beneath the Michigan lobe, southwest of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and asks persistent questions regarding the timing and sequence of all these phenomenal flood features’ formations. CBD RECOMMENDED - Listen to Randall’s experience with “CBD from the gods” after the mid-break at 54:35. They have some special deals going on right now, and in addition, for the Kosmographia audience - you can also get FREE shipping on your order!  Use code: “RCshipsFREE” (not case sensitive) when you check out at https://www.cbdfromthegods.com  Support Randall Carlson's efforts to discover and share pivotal paradigm-shifting information! Improve the quality of the podcast and future videos. Allow him more time for his research into the many scientific journals, books, and his expeditions into the field, as he continues to decipher the clues that explain the mysteries of our past, and prepare us for the future... Donate to this work thru his Patreon subscription/membership site, and receive special perks: https://patreon.com/RandallCarlson Or make a one-time donation thru PayPal, credit/debit card or other account here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8YVDREQ9SMKL6&source=url http://www.RandallCarlson.com has the podcast, RC’s blog, galleries, and products to purchase! T-shirts available here: https://randallcarlson.com/product-category/apparel/  Scablands May REXpedition: http://ContactattheCabin.com/Carlson Podcast crew email: Kosmographia1618@gmail.com Info on upcoming trips with Randall and the crew: TOURS@RandallCarlson.com Small class lectures "Cosmography 101" from '06-'09 on Brad's original channel: https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex     Full listing of scientific papers about the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: https://cosmictusk.com  Kosmographia logo and design animation by Brothers of the Serpent. Check out their podcast: http://www.BrothersoftheSerpent.com/ Theme “Deos” and bumper music by Fifty Dollar Dynasty: http://www.FiftyDollarDynasty.net/ Video recording, editing and publishing by Bradley Young with YSI Productions LLC (copyrights), with audio mastered by Kyle Allen.   LINKS:  RUSH concert, from 1981 Exit Stage Left, “Xanadu”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuHS-gjMiVw  “…for I have dined on honeydew, and drunk the milk of paradise…” Rush documentary with concert video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0xkMfiHIec  Bathymetry of Lake Ontario (poster size pdf): https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/images/ontario_wallsize_300.pdf With Charity Shoals Crater: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/images/ontario_300.pdf Another shaded topo map: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/greatlakes/lakeontario_cdrom/images/hi_res.jpg Great Lakes bathymetry at NOAA: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/greatlakes/greatlakes.html Highlights from the Oct 2020 “Southwest Experience”: https://www.worldviewzmedia.com/seminars/virtual-roadtrip-randall-carlson-oct-22-25-2020 CBD FROM THE GODS LINK:  http://www.cbdfromthegods.com COUPON CODE: RCshipsFREE #NewYork #LakeOntario #Drumlins #IceImpact #FingerLakes #IceAgeFloods #GreenBay

We look back at last week’s lesson on drumlins from guest Jerome Lesemann, marveling as it seems he did, at the “absolutely astounding” scale of the water-flushed features created at the bed of a continental ice sheet. Many questions remain about the source of the meltwater and the details of massive Glacial Lake Agassiz. Its release thru Big Stone Lake on the Minnesota River has left many clues that we can learn to recognize as features indicating megafloods in other locations. Relict flood channels with “misfit” rivers are difficult to explain with gradualist principles, so attempts by Dury that had to include a paleo-river that was much larger than the modern flow were early indications of a flaw in the Uniformitarian model. Then RC considers Washington’s Palouse Hills as analogous to some of Jerome’s crescentic forms, and finally, shares photos of an impressive site in the Okanogan Valley.   CBD RECOMMENDED - Listen to Randall’s experience with “CBD from the gods” after the mid-break at 50:17. They have some special deals going on right now, and in addition, for the Kosmographia audience - you can also get FREE shipping on your order!  Use code: “RCshipsFREE” (not case sensitive) when you check out at https://www.cbdfromthegods.com  Support Randall Carlson's efforts to discover and share pivotal paradigm-shifting information! Improve the quality of the podcast and future videos. Allow him more time for his research into the many scientific journals, books, and his expeditions into the field, as he continues to decipher the clues that explain the mysteries of our past, and prepare us for the future...   Donate to this work thru his Patreon subscription/membership site, and receive special perks: https://patreon.com/RandallCarlson Or make a one-time donation thru PayPal, credit/debit card or other account here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8YVDREQ9SMKL6&source=url   http://www.RandallCarlson.com has the podcast, RC’s blog, galleries, and products to purchase! Scablands May REXpedition: http://ContactattheCabin.com/Carlson Podcast crew email: Kosmographia1618@gmail.com Info on upcoming trips with Randall and the crew: TOURS@RandallCarlson.com Small class lectures "Cosmography 101" from '06-'09 on Brad's original channel: https://youtube.com/geocosmicrex       Full listing of scientific papers about the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis: https://cosmictusk.com    Kosmographia logo and design animation by Brothers of the Serpent. Check out their podcast: http://www.BrothersoftheSerpent.com/ Theme “Deos” and bumper music by Fifty Dollar Dynasty: http://www.FiftyDollarDynasty.net/ Video recording, editing and publishing by Bradley Young with YSI Productions LLC (copyrights), with audio mastered by Kyle Allen.   LINKS:  Isostatic Rebound of Hudson Bay: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/8657/akimiski-island-canada  CBD FROM THE GODS LINK:  http://www.cbdfromthegods.com COUPON CODE: RCshipsFREE #Megafloods #LakeAgassiz #MisfitRiver #Catastrophism #BigStoneLake #Geomorphology

In Episode 1 of the Voices Driving Change podcast, we speak with Tom Kalahar of Olivia, Minnesota about the fight to protect Limbo Creek, the last free-flowing stream in Renville County. Learn more about the importance of Limbo Creek, the impact of agricultural drainage on the Minnesota River, and what you can do to help. Voices Driving Change is a 10-day celebration - learn more about additional podcast episodes and live online events Sept 15-24, 2020 by going to voicesdrivingchange.org.

Dr. Al Legendre tells us about a little known disease that can affect humans and dogs, Producer Derek joins us from fishing in North Carolina to guide us through selecting a saltwater guide & Spanish mackerel trolling, Chef John Schumacher, The Game Gourmet, catches up with Gundy and shares his love of rhubarb, Tony Sindt, Minnesota DNR River Specialist, on opportunities & species that the Minnesota River brings.   It's all here in The Big Wild!

We are fortunate in Carver County to have direct access to over 14,000 acres of stunning wildlife refuge along the Minnesota River. Robert "Randy" Petzel is the president of the Minnesota Valley Refuge Friends and he wants us to know that despite the 2 visitor centers in Bloomington and Carver being temporarily closed, nature and the 40+ miles of trails are open and crowd free. Visit www.fws.gov/refuge/minnesota_valley/ to find out how you can take advantage of this amazing community asset. Also if you have interest in volunteering, he can be reached at; robertpetzel@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/greg-anderson29/message

Today's podcast is going to talk about everyone's favorite subject: snakes and skinks! That's right, we're going reptile folks and we aren't going back! We'll talk with Nongame Biologist, Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer, Herpetologist, Carol Hall, and Animal Survey Specialist, Jeff LeClere to hear about their work tracking gopher snakes and five-lined skinks in the Minnesota River Valley. For resources and more details related to today's episode, find us on the web at mndnr.gov/prairiepod

Today's podcast is going to talk about everyone's favorite subject: snakes and skinks! That's right, we're going reptile folks and we aren't going back! We'll talk with Nongame Biologist, Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer, Herpetologist, Carol Hall, and Animal Survey Specialist, Jeff LeClere to hear about their work tracking gopher snakes and five-lined skinks in the Minnesota River Valley. For resources and more details related to today's episode, find us on the web at mndnr.gov/prairiepod

We are joined by Zach Mohlis, from The Landing-Minnesota River Heritage Park, who shares with us how people used the Minnesota River when Europeans first settled the area. We discuss how farming practices have changed since them, their impact on the river, and what we can learn from the 1800's to help our waters today. Nick Sacco from our Outdoor Recreation department shares with us many of the water based activities you can in Three Rivers, and we debate whether or not log rolling is a paddle sport.

The surprising cause, pace, and consequences of erosion in the Minnesota River watershed. Learn more at:  http://www.CurrentCast.org.

After accelerating their studies and graduating high school early, two teenagers set off from their hometown in Minnesota to embark on a 2200-mile canoe journey up the heart of North America. Their destination: the permafrost shores of Hudson Bay. Inspired by a passion for the simple life, where gadgets and schedules are replaced by nature and its harsh beauty, the duo found something that many believe is lost: a true adventure. Follow the pair up the flooding Minnesota River and through the prairie plains of North Dakota, across man-sized waves on Lake Winnipeg, and down the foaming rapids of the Canadian north. The triumphs and trials of the unforgiving wild challenged their friendship, dreams, and lives in a way that even they could have never predicted. For those who have dreamt of wilderness escape, or those who prefer to simply read about it, Adventure North will spur the imaginative spirit and remind you that adventure is always just around the next bend. Link to the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Tm8EsI

This summer, two Granite Gear sponsored Minnesotan adventurers, Paul Twedt and Michael Anderson, aim to remove trash from 1200 miles of Minnesota rivers: the Namekagon/St. Croix, Minnesota and Mississippi. Twedt and Anderson founded Adventure Stewardship Alliance and represent the organization's mission of acting as stewards of our public waterways, inspiring a deeper sense of connection and care for natural environments and public waterways. They believe litter isn't one person's problem, it's everyone's problem, and they aim to make an impact on that issue. The team is currently paddling the Minnesota River, the second river clean-up of their Three Rivers Expedition. Since beginning on July 3rd near Ortonville, Minnesota at Big Stone Lake, the duo has paddled more than 65 miles and removed over 350 pounds of trash. The expedition will conclude in October as the team paddles and cleans up the Mississippi river along its first 600 miles in Minnesota.

We are joined on the bench with Brian Peterson, acclaimed photographer.  Honored nine times as Minnesota Press Photographer of the Year, Peterson has covered major stories including; Russia before and after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Exxon Valdez oil spill,  the 1987 and 91 Minnesota Twins World Series victories, Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, Salt Lake City and Vancouver just to name a few. Recently Peterson has focused his camera on environmental issues, including a six-month study of the pollution in the Minnesota River.  The yearlong feature called “Voices for the Land”, explored the issues surrounding land use and urban sprawl in the state. On the bench, we discuss his latest book project “State of Wonders”.  A fabulous book illustrating the four corners of Minnesota during the four distinct seasons of the year.  

Eight years ago the Mississippi River Bridge was a steel-trussed, eight-lane arch bridge carrying Interstate 35 across the Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time, this bridge carried over 140,000 vehicles every single day. Then the unbelievable happened. During the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, the bridge collapsed, killing 13 and injuring 145 more. Within a few hours, Minnesota Private Investigator Paul Jaeb was retained to conduct an investigation on behalf of one of his law firm clients that, at a minimum, was a challenging task. Tune in to hear Paul Jaeb discuss this major investigation, its challenges, its obstacles and what he learned as a result.

Description of the Minnesota River water trail.