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Sharing the Wealth Across Generations and Cultures

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Sharing the Wealth Across Generations and Cultures Where the mouth of the Lower Elwha River spills into the Strait of Juan de Fuca along the Olympic Peninsula’s north coast, the Lower Elwha Klallam people have made their home for centuries. At the time of local Anglo-European settlement in the mid-19th century, 25 Klallam villages stretched […]

Jack Ehrhardt

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Going Quiet Kingman, Arizona · By Charlie Laurel Jack Ehrhardt and his contracting company, ACE Builders, built the first “Earthship” in Arizona for a client in Dewey in the early 1990s. An Earthship is a self-sustaining, passive solar home made from used tires packed with dirt, cans, bottles, and other discards. The home was designed […]

Cedar Creek Natural History Area

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Article from the Star Tribune – Published July 27, 2002 by Tom Meersman A Natural Choice Chris Clark, a University of Minnesota researcher working with a dozen undergraduates in the fields recently, was swatting deerflies as he clipped and removed long, narrow strips of foliage from small plots in a grasslands experiment. The students, some […]

Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center

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Nature’s Value Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center (ELC) is nestled in 2,000 acres of forests, inland lakes and rivers, on a ridge of land overlooking Lake Superior near Finland in southern Lake County, Minnesota. Gary Deason, the executive director of Wolf Ridge for the past 2 years, says that he and his staff “believe in […]