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2 days ago | 
northernnewsnow.com | Dave Anderson
DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - Lily Haldorsen was born near Trondheim Fjord in Norway in 1917. Her father heeded the advice of relatives and emigrated to Duluth in 1923 as his whole village waved goodbye. “My mother wasn’t very happy about but off we went, on a big beautiful ocean liner that had just been built,” said Lily during a 2023 interview. Later in life, Lily would paint a picture of that vessel that took her family to New York City.
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1 week ago | 
northernnewsnow.com | Dave Anderson
TWO HARBORS, Minn. (Northern News Now) - This futuristic-looking delta-wing aircraft is really a blast from the distant past. It’s a Dyke Delta JD2. “It’s a 1962 design and the original prototype made its first flight in January 1962,” said Alan White at an Experimental Aircraft Association meeting in Two Harbors. Alan White of Superior bought a build-it-yourself kit of the plane in his youth. “I started building it in 1971,” said WhiteWhite finished it in 2010.
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1 week ago | 
northernnewsnow.com | Dave Anderson
SUPERIOR, Wis. (Northern News Now) - It was May of the year 2000 when Phebe Lane of Superior called me to let me know it was the 50th anniversary of a storm that made her hide under her mattress while leveling many parts of the town. Mrs. Lane’s yellow crumbling copy of the Telegram called the May 5th and 6th storm a hurricane. “The winds were between 75 and 95 miles per hour and I think Duluth saw 88 miles per hour,” said Jon Winter of the Douglas County Historical Society in a recent interview.
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1 week ago | 
nhpr.org | Chris Martin |Dave Anderson |Jessica Hunt
Here’s a fun quiz to celebrate bird nesting season in New Hampshire. Listen to this episode and see how many bird nests you can identify, just by hearing a description!Bird species choose different spots for their nests, and make the nests out of a variety of materials. But WHY they make these choices is complicated. There may be as many different reasons as there are different types of birds!Nest materials vary with the plant materials available locally.
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2 weeks ago | 
northernnewsnow.com | Dave Anderson
DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - Spring is the time when baby animals are born and sometimes they need extra help so Wildwoods Animal Rehab Center steps in. Last spring, a baby stoat was brought to Wildwoods Animal Rehab when its mother was killed by a car. This spring, the team at Wildwoods is ready for another rush of baby animals brought in by kind hearted people.
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3 weeks ago | 
northernnewsnow.com | Dave Anderson
DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - The Spring Turkey Season for hunting turkeys is now open in Minnesota. Wild turkeys were rare in Minnesota until 29 Missouri birds were released near the Iowa border in 1971. They’ve pushed north since then and now there are enough turkeys to support a fall and spring hunting season. Minnesota’s spring season runs through May. Turkey hunter Jay Boberg says stalking the big birds is a lot like deer hunting.
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3 weeks ago | 
nhpr.org | Dave Anderson |Chris Martin |Jessica Hunt
Have you ever walked or paddled along a riverbank, and noticed a towering tree with deeply-furrowed gray bark and huge bright green leaves that flutter in the breeze like butterfly wings? If so, you’ve probably met the Eastern Cottonwood. The poplars are a few of New England’s amazing tree pioneers. Cottonwoods, along with related big-toothed and trembling Aspens, aren’t always given much respect, yet they are unsurpassed at what they do.
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1 month ago | 
nhpr.org | Dave Anderson |Chris Martin |Jessica Hunt
If you’re a new transplant to New Hampshire, you might not have noticed our other "foliage season.” Each spring, tiny tree flowers and swelling buds, ready to burst, paint a subtle wash of early pastel color across our hillsides and wetlands. Colorful twigs are not as exuberant as flower blossoms. We don't get bright March cherry blossoms like Washington, D.C. Maybe we try to compare our northern surroundings to warmer climes too soon and feel inadequate.
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1 month ago | 
nhpr.org | Dave Anderson
This time of year, Something Wild co-host Dave Anderson is busy in his sugar house. He’s trying to keep the sap boiling just as fast as it flows through the network of blue tubing that runs through his sugarbush. He even sets a timer to remind himself to keep feeding wood into the fire under the evaporator. It’s a charming setting, with sweet-scented maple steam wafting out the vents and drifting down into the village.
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2 months ago | 
nhpr.org | Dave Anderson
Who doesn’t love a winter wildlife story, reading tracks in the snow, and looking for clues about the wild visitors to our backyards and woodlands? Seeing deer around New Hampshire is pretty common, but when it gets to this time of year, not so much. New Hampshire Fish and Game suggests there are close to 100,000 white-tailed deer in the state. When the snow is not too deep, they can survive on bark, twigs, and buds, or by scratching up acorns from under shallow snow.
