On Great Lakes Town Hall this week, Elanne Palcich is educating readers across the region about the people, the places and the effect of past and proposed mining in Minnesota.

With all apologies for the delay, here are some quick updates from the capitol and a few other tidbits.

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The Healing our Waters Coalition has a new report out detailing participation in the Federal Farm Bill for states around the Great Lakes.  Admittedly, there is not a tremendous amount of farming going on in the Lake Superior watershed, but there is a lot in Minnesota and the health of Lake Superior is connected with the health of the Great Lakes as a whole as well.  The report has some interesting details about how many Minnesota farmers – and how much acreage - have been denied participation due to inadequate funding of the Farm Bill.

You can download the report with this link (PDF).

Have you ever wanted to record a rap song about how fire benefits a grassland ecosystem?  Well someone has beaten you to it. Two people actually.  I don’t know who they are, but Patrick Sullivan and Brett Smith have their names attached to this.  Word on the street is that they are associated with a fire crew for The Nature Conservancy.

You can hear it for yourself at: Grasslands.

The lyrics are found below…
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