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Safety factors, weather conditions, air quality, personnel availability and environmental regulations are continually monitored before the burn to determine feasibility of moving forward with the prescribed burn, during and after the burn.

Conversation topics can include anything related to wildlife, from wild turkeys to deer population levels, new hunting regulations, wetland restoration that benefits waterfowl, accessibility improvements at wildlife management areas, animal damage issues, and more.

Paleontologists from the Science Museum of Minnesota visited with Bemidji State Beaver hockey fans, lobbying for the giant beaver's induction as a state fossil.

During the week of June 10, 2025, we received 4 reports covering Pileated Woodpeckers, wild strawberries, and more. Staff phenologist John Latimer responds.

Students and listeners from across the state send in their nature reports. Depending on the season, reports may cover wildflowers, wildlife, weather and other wonders.

During the week of April 22, 2025, students reported hearing American Woodcocks, seeing dragonflies, and finding emerging irises. Staff phenologist John Latimer responds.

During the week of Aug. 26, 2025, we hear reports of tree scents, migrating nighthawks, and native bees. Staff phenologist John Latimer responds.

Due to the storm damage and power outages in Bemidji, the conference has been canceled. The Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference will host free, public evening sessions with Carl Phillips, Jennifer Foerster, Douglas Kearney, Toni Jensen and more.

The Trump administration has requested $22 million for postsecondary Indian education programs for 2026, compared to the $196 million appropriated for those programs in 2025.

The region's new industrial space could help attract new manufacturing businesses.

The inmate's complaint related to their refusal to be housed out-of-county. After a reduced capacity order in January 2023, about 40-60 of Beltrami's inmates are housed elsewhere each day.

Doug Cogswell, Ryan Johns, LaNea Johnson, Carissa L. McIlwain and Nick Porter are running for I.S.D. 316, Greenway, School Board.

John Latimer's official weekly assessment of nature.

Several area residents gathered in City Hall on Jan. 30 to share passionate testimony on the loss of labor and delivery services at Essentia Health’s Fosston hospital.

A designation change, pending approval from the Centers for Medicaid Services, would move Mahnomen Health Center from a critical access hospital to a rural emergency hospital — the first in Minnesota.

Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College President John Hoffman discussed strategies to pull the regional campuses out of the red and increase enrollment.

Dr. Matthew Hallanger, an emergency medicine physician at Sanford Health-Bemidji, discusses what he's seeing and how to prevent illness from spreading.

School board accepts 4 early buyouts with $10,000 incentive, but rejects the same agreement with principals.

The Republican won all but 11 of 80 precincts in Senate District 6 in her April 29, 2025, special election victory. Seven precincts that voted red in 2022 flipped.

With Minnesota banning imports of live minnows and commercial minnow raising operations few, live bait for the $4 billion fishing industry largely relies on wild harvest.