Betsy Bloom

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1 month ago | dailypress.net | Betsy Bloom

Mar 17, 2025 By Betsy Bloom Iron Mountain Daly News The recent news that cougar cubs had turned up in the Upper Peninsula — Michigan’s first confirmed wild cubs in more than a century — sparked both elation and worry. The elation came that a female cougar may have actually made the 900-plus-miles journey from most likely the Black Hills of South Dakota to end up in the U.P. Young male cougars usually are forced to disperse from the region where they were born because the dominant male that...

1 month ago | dailypress.net | Betsy Bloom

By Betsy BloomIron Mountain Daily NewsWASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman on Tuesday commended the U.S. Postal Service’s decision to keep local mail processing at the facility in Kingsford, saying he viewed it as “a long-overdue recognition” of the crucial need for a strong delivery system in the region.

1 month ago | lacrossetribune.com | Betsy Bloom

La Crosse County officials have dialed back some of the proposed new regulations for outdoor wood-fired furnaces, including delaying by a decade the deadline to replace older boilers with cleaner-burning models. Owners of these wood-burning heaters now would have until December 2030, rather than the end of 2020, to upgrade to the “Phase II” type preferred by the EPA that experts say burns 90 percent cleaner than the older models.

Jan 7, 2025 | dailypress.net | Betsy Bloom

Though so far this winter has been a dull affair in terms of birds, that doesn’t mean it’s completely devoid of surprises. A home in eastern Delta County has been graced by a species both out of season and out of its normal range. The homeowner said she first noticed the bird foraging under her feeder Nov. 9. Unable to identify it, she ran its photo through the Picture Bird app on her phone — and the response was “spotted towhee.”“And I thought, ‘That can’t be right,'” she said.