Mark Jacobs, retired Aitkin County Land Commissioner is helping us produce a series about natural resource based issues important to our region. This month we continuted the conversation on forests and birds with Alexis Grinde from the Natural Resources Research Institute. She's a wildlife ecologist and she talked with us about birds and habitat.
About NRRI
As part of the University of Minnesota system research enterprise, NRRI employs over 140 scientists, engineers, technicians, staff and students in two industrial research facilities. Through collaborative partnerships, we deliver the innovative tools and solutions needed to utilize and sustain Minnesota’s precious natural resources.
For more information check out this article from Science Magazine "Decline of Northern American Avifauna" reporting a loss of nearly 3-billion birds over the last 50 years.
