Mark Jacobs, retired Aitkin County Land Commissioner is helping us produce a series about natural resource based issues important to our region. This month we continuted the conversation on forests and birds with Alexis Grinde from the Natural Resources Research Institute . She's a wildlife ecologist and she talked with us about birds and habitat. About NRRI As part of the University of Minnesota system research enterprise, NRRI employs over 140 scientists, engineers, technicians, staff and