Today on Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo we hear a story from Natasha and Nana Boozhoo. This Ojibwe language podcast is created by Michael Lyons and supported by the MN Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

This week Timberjay editor Marshall Helmberger told us about finding an old iron ore mine on an island on Lake Vermilon, catching a record musky on Vermilion, and the ruffed grouse season.

The DNR conducted surveillance around a CWD-positive captive deer facility near Merrifield starting in the 2017 hunting season. In February 2019, the DNR confirmed chronic wasting disease in a wild deer found in Crow Wing County less than 1/2 a mile from the infected captive facility. Based on this discovery, the DNR designated a new CWD management zone, deer permit area 604, in north central Minnesota for the 2019 hunting season. Dr. Michelle Carstensen joined us this morning – she’s the

Each week John and Heidi pull up a chair to one of our member’s kitchen tables and get to know them a little bit better. This week’s caller, Chris from Grand Rapids share her breakfast of healthy granola with milk and just a touch of cream instead of questionable toast, butter, jam and coffee while her husband has her fresh apple pie. Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on

Carrie Dlutkowski is passionate about fiddle music - particularly the Scottich, French-Canadian and Metis styles which date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Dlutowski is spending time at area schools this week sharing her talents of fiddling as well as step dancing. This Friday and Saturday she will conduct fiddle and step dancing workshops at Headwaters School of Music and Arts that focus on the Scottish, French and Metis traditions. She'll lead a step dancing workshop Sunday afternoon.

Paul Douglas is a nationally-respected meteorologist, with 40 years of broadcast television and radio experience. In 2016 he published a book with Mitch Hescox called “Caring for Creation – The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment”. One of the reviewers said “Evangelicals defend our belief that God created the world, yet we sometimes fail to conserve it”. Paul Douglas will be speaking this Saturday October 26th in Grand Rapids – at noon at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church

Our local forest bat population is being decimated to near extinction by white nose syndrome. The northern long eared bat, once common in MN forests, is now on the endangered species list. Bats are major predators for flying insect pests that attack our forests and us. Forest to Tap Breweries in northern Minnesota are hosting FLIGHT FOR BATS WEEK October 24 th -31 st . When you buy a flight of locally produced beer from area breweries a portion benefits Bat Conservation International. Breweries

Each week John and Heidi pull up a chair to one of our member’s kitchen tables and get to know them a little bit better. This week’s caller, Old Man River from Jacobson shared his breakfast of blueberry yogurt with even more blueberries. Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on What's For Breakfast . All it takes is your membership and an email !

There's always hope... nothing is as dark as you think . Ever . - Jane Ryan Jane Ryan's first solo exhibit is titled Purgatory and currently on show at the Crossing Arts Alliance in downtown Brainerd. The series consists of ten large scale graphite images that include an amalgam of objects found in the garage along with two human figures trapped in purgatory. ... The idea of purgatory ... kind of a random thought came to me . What happens ... do two like souls ever find each other...in all the

Taking time to contemplate what is happening in nature is one of the many aspects of Northern Community Radio that sets us apart from any other radio station. Each day we bring you a phenology note where our resident phenologist John Latimer shares a note from his journals of more than 35 years of climate and nature data collection. Each Tuesday we dig even deeper with the full Phenology Report. If you appreciate this programming, become a member today or increase the contribution amount of your