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Help Plant an Ethnobotanical Garden at Voyageurs N.P.
Here’s a great volunteer vacation idea… But first, what the flip is an ethnobotanical garden?
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Report: Midwest Mountaineering Outdoor Adventure Expo (Spring ’11)
Did you make it to the Expo this weekend? Read this anyway.
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Gunflint GreenUp May 6-8
Interested in planting pines that paddlers will appreciate many years from now? MORE
Holiday Guide 2010: Giving More
Holly, jolly, UpNorthica has some great ways to make the holidays meaningful and cheery. These are some of our top choices for giving that are sure to fill someone’s heart, and yours.
Do You Like Looking at Loons?

With their lovely plumage, haunting calls and graceful poise, who doesn’t love catching a glimpse of loons in the Boundary Waters? If you’re really lucky, you may’ve even seen one of their grisly, bloodthirsty territorial battles.
For years, the MN-DNR’s efforts to keep loon populations stable in Minnesota, have been supported by scores of volunteer loon-watchers. And now they need you to join their flock (even though loons themselves do not typically flock; by now you probably know they’re quite reclusive and mostly live in pairs — I was just being clever and flowery with my prose, give me a break.)




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