Minnesota Lake

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Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge ... [Read More]

Lake Superior Basin Plan
Primarily, the land use in the basin is dominated by forestry and recreation. The counties are largely wooded, with Ashland County about 85 percent forested, Bayfield County 82 percent, Douglas County 77 percent and Iron County 83 percent forested based on 1983 figures. Much of this forest is in national, state or county forest or in large tracts of industrial forest. Only about one-eighth of the land area of Vilas County falls within the basin, primarily in the towns of Presque Isle, Land O' Lakes and Winchester. The Vilas County portion of the basin is dominated by lakes and wetland, with recreation an important activity. ... [Read More]

Minnesota - Hourly data
ASUS43 KMPX 182210RWRMN WEATHER ROUNDUP FOR MINNESOTANATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN500 PM CDT MON JUL 18 2005NOTE: "FAIR" INDICATES FEW OR NO CLOUDS BELOW 12,000 FEET WITH NOSIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND/OR OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY. N/A MEANSCURRENT SKY AND/OR WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.MNZ060>063-068>070-182300- Twin Cities Metro CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKSTWIN CITIES MOSUNNY 78 55 44 NW14G23 29.83R ST PAUL PTSUNNY 78 55 44 W20G25 29.82S CRYSTAL PTSUNNY 77 56 48 W15G23 29.82R BLAINE MOSUNNY 75 55 50 W22G28 29.83R EDEN PRAIRIE MOSUNNY 82 55 39 W14G21 29.83R LAKEVILLE SUNNY 79 57 47 W14G20 29.82S SOUTH ST PAUL MOSUNNY 79 55 44 W14G20 29.81S $$MNZ001>005-007-008-013>017-022>024-027-028-182300- Northwest Minnesota CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKSBEMIDJI CLOUDY 63 46 55 W17G26 29.83R HALLOCK CLOUDY 66 52 59 NW20G26 29.85S ROSEAU CLOUDY 64 54 68 NW15G23 29.79S WARROAD CLOUDY 61 50 67 NW13G21 29.80R THIEF RVR FALL CLOUDY 63 48 59 NW21G26 29.88R CR ... [Read More]

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROVIDES RED LAKE, MINNESOTA $250,000 TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF SCHOOL SHOOTING
    The Office for Victims of Crime also funded services and assistance to the Red Lake Community through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). With funding from OVC immediately following the shooting, the FBI Office for Victim Assistance and the Minneapolis Field Office deployed ten victim specialists to the Red Lake Indian Reservation to address victim assistance matters related to the shooting at Red Lake High School. The victim specialists were assigned to various sites upon arrival to the Reservation including: the Incident Command Center, MeritCare Hospital in Fargo North Dakota, and Bemidji Hospital in Bemidji, Minnesota. The victim specialists also established liaison with the Red Cross and other victim assistance organizations and individuals deployed to the Reservation. ... [Read More]

Minnesota
The National Ocean Service (NOS) operates two long-term continuously operating water level stations in the state of Minnesota which provide data and information on Great Lakes and interconnecting waterways datums and lake level regulation and are capable of producing real-time data for storm surge warning. These stations are located on Lake Superior at Duluth and at Grand Marais. For additional information about the National Water Level Observation Network, please visit: http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov   ... [Read More]

USGS Fact Sheet FS-059-99
One example of a lake with varved sediment is Elk Lake in the Mississippi headwaters region, Itasca Park, in northwestern Minnesota (fig. 2). On the surface, Elk Lake with its forested shores (fig. 3) resembles many of the other lakes in the "Land of 10,000 Lakes." However, the sediments underneath the lake contain varves that have marked off the seasons year after year for the last 10,400 years (inset, fig. 3). ...

These varved sediments yield abundant biological, chemical, and mineralogical components that can be related to climate and environmental change. Most of the sediment components are produced in the lake (for example, organic matter, siliceous shells of diatoms, precipitated calcium carbonate), but small amounts of silt and clay are blown into the lake by the wind. The thickness of the varves (fig. 4, left) is a function mainly of the amount of wind-borne silt and clay that is delivered to the lake. Much of the wind-borne silt and clay consists of the mineral quartz, so that varve thickness and relative abundance of quartz (fig. 4) are both indicators of windiness. Because of its heavy silica shell, the diatom Aulacoseira (fig. 4, right) requires turbulence to keep it in the photic zone, and this also means windy conditions. Most of the sodium in sediments is in plagioclase feldspar that is very sensitive to chemical weathering (decomposition) and, therefore, to available moisture. In a ... [Read More]