We don't think so. Plus, reflections on the Pagami Creek Fire, 10 years later.
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It's September, and we have fall colors on the brain.
COVID-19 put the brakes on a lot of fun stuff the past year and a half. But it can’t stop the beauty of a Minnesota fall. The Department of Natural Resources has launched this year’s fall color finder, and we are here for it.
Yes, colors are mostly in their infancy right now, but that just gives you a little time to get ready.
Jay Cooke State Park reports some early fall color changes already, “mainly in aspens, due to the drought conditions and a few maple leaves are just beginning to change.”
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Courtesy of the Minnesota DNR
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Check out a few of the DNR's current highlights and suggestions about where to go and what you’ll see:
Trees, grasses and other signs of fall are noticeable throughout the park. The day use area provides a 360-degree view of the beginnings of fall. Weather has been pleasant for a nice picnic all while enjoying the birds and deer getting late summer feeding in.
Goldenrod and bluestem are turning. Asters are coming into bloom. There are bright yellow patches of a variety of sunflowers. Snakes are venturing out more as they search for a little warmth at night and a winter home.
Check out the Mound Trail along the bison pasture fence.
Besides the aspens starting to change, goldenrod and sunflower species are making a full display, and grasses are beginning to take on the rusty hues of fall.
Water remains low in the St. Louis River due to drought conditions, which makes it easier to see the slated slate rock formations. Birds are beginning to prepare for their migratory journeys.
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| Smoke from the Pagami Creek fire on Sept. 10, 2011. | Courtesy of Greg Seitz 2011 |
By Dan Kraker
Ten years ago this weekend, the Pagami Creek Fire exploded into the biggest wildfire Minnesota had seen in over a century. What had been burning slowly in the Boundary Waters for weeks became an inferno, sweeping across 16 miles of the wilderness in a single day, overtaking campers and Forest Service rangers caught in its path.
It burned through a part of the Boundary Waters where there hadn't been any wildfires in 150 years. An analysis after the fire found that the Forest Service had extinguished around 50 small fires that had started inside the footprint of Pagami in the past several decades, that, if allowed to burn, would have created a patchwork of younger, more fire-resistant forest that could have prevented the fire from becoming the conflagration it did.
Here, survivors of the fire reflect on the experience.
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