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Three authors create the first Minnesota breeding bird book in nearly a century

By Mya Smith | March 11, 2024

Fifteen years in the making, The Breeding Birds of Minnesota is the first all-encompassing Minnesota breeding bird book in nearly a century. 

Made for casual bird lovers and for professional ornithologists, the book features 250 breeding bird species in Minnesota. It will be available in April.

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Author preserves Great Lakes shipwrecks by writing novels about them

By Mya Smith | October 12, 2023

Plummeting temperatures, blinding snow and ferocious winds ripped through the air as three freighters struggled on Lake Michigan’s frigid surface.  

Unsuspecting and dangerously underprepared passengers braced for the worst, baffled at the stark contrast from the serene weather of the morning.