Environment

The nonprofit Wildlife Habitat Council last week certified Spruce Ridge Landfill as a home for wildlife.

The McLeod County Board Tuesday (Nov. 3) gave Hutchinson city forester Mark Schnobrich the go-ahead to help the county’s nine municipalities fight back against emerald ash borer.

A recent death of a Wisconsin man after falling out of a tree stand while bear hunting has officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources urging caution as the state’s hunting seasons

Two and a half decades after seeing its stately boulevard elms devastated by Dutch elm disease, Hutchinson will have to prepare itself for the potential loss of most of its more than 3,000 ash trees to the emerald ash borer, or EAB.

By Nathan Winter
Extension Educator – Agricultural Productions Systems
McLeod/Meeker County

The McLeod Alliance for Victims of Domestic Violence is displaying a can-do attitude toward fundraising this month.

The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority, or PFA, has presented another round of financing for improvements to drinking water and wastewater plants in several small Minnesota towns and cities.

Mike Sadowsky, Director of the BioTech Institute at the University of Minnesota will be giving a community lecture at Ridgewater College’s Willmar campus on Thursday, Oct. 29.

The Hutchinson City Council unanimously granted Stacy and Jeremy Crosby a variance last week that allows them to build an 18-foot by 18-foot addition to the back of their home at 1880 West Shore Drive

By Jodi DeJong-Hughes,
a crops educator with University of Minnesota Extension