HeyJaredJust a Bit Outside | Mark Neužil
Stories of the outdoors, outdoor people, and the small things in nature and our environment.
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The Annie Dillard-Sigurd Olson connection (opens the original)
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Nature’s softest plant (opens the original)
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About Those Damaged BWCA Fire Grates (opens the original)
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Impacts of the proposed Roadless Rule repeal in Minnesota (opens the original)
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Two important political developments affecting Minnesota’s canoe country occurred just hours apart last month.First, Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order putting the brakes on a plan by the South American mining company Antofagasta to mine copper-nickel in the Boundary Waters watershed. Then came a less-publicized (locally) announcement from the Trump administration: a proposal to repeal the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, includ
About that white striation on a remote rock... (opens the original)
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My one course in geology (GEOL 100, Geology and Man — it was a while ago) at Iowa’s premier science-with-practice university1 did not stick with me enough to identify many rocks, particularly striations in formations common in the American Midwest.When I came across a boulder during a recent Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) trip with white streaks across its face, I wanted to know what type of rock would form a white streak in basalt. I was guessing quartz.Turns out it was toothpaste spit, whic
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