Sixteen years after it first was homeported in Lake Superior, the 225-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alder has left the Great Lakes for the last time and is headed to its new home on the West Coast. The ...

In early August, on the trail that starts near the end of the North Douglas Highway, I found a funny looking thing on the underside of an alder leaf. There was a long, thin, stick-like form underneath ...

Late summer, and the long drought reduced my home pond to little more than a mud puddle. Even so, two broods of mallards visit every day, no doubt drawn by the seed spilled from the feeder that hangs ...

On a windy Wednesday morning, July 7, 2021, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Alder made its final trip under Duluth's Aerial Lift Bridge as it set sail for Baltimore, Maryland. The Alder arrived in the ...

As the colors of the wildflowers give way to the changing colors of the leaves, we know fall has arrived in Summit County. Our High Country’s forested landscape may be dominated by evergreen trees, ...