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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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3. In 50 years northern Minnesota is expected to transition to prairie

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Mon May 19, 2025, 08:56 PM

May 19

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesotas-northwoods-on-the-brink-heres-whats-being-done-about-it/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i&_amp=1*ms19k5*s_vid*S2ZQMHlxRERSUXVCOTVCSmlneUMwVkJJSzRNS3U0ZmtFckYwVVFGWlFaZlMwSENqaklYNTY4djVpcVR2YU9Dcg..

"The forecast is pretty grim," said David Abazs with the Farm and Forest Growers Network "The boreal forest, in any scenario, is gone, I've gone through the tears, I'm watching things die and now I'm in the let's get it done."

Wildfires are to be expected now. Our only hope is replanting with deciduous trees from southern Minnesota instead.

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