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Just a Bit Outside

Mark Neužil

Stories of the outdoors, outdoor people, and the small things in nature and our environment.

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Latest Issues

Hauling Out the Dock of the Bay

A fall rite in this part of North America is Taking Out the Dock, which happens several months after the spring rite of Putting In the Dock. That’s where I found myself last week with two high school buddies, a retired firefighter, and a bu...

4 days ago
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Life jackets and keeping afloat

The safest and most uncomfortable PFD.

Writing about the U.S. Navy stuffing life jackets with cattail seeds reminded me of a recent Coast Guard decision to add to the types of flotation devices allowed on our waters.

A little background:...

11 days ago

The Annie Dillard-Sigurd Olson connection

Sometime in 1974, a young author in Virginia mailed a note and a manuscript chapter to Ely, Minnesota, to the attention of Sigurd Olson, perhaps America’s most well-known nature writer. Would Olson be kind enough to take a look at the manus...

18 days ago
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Nature’s softest plant

A mature cattail in the early fall is in the running for nature’s softest plant. When the flower heads of the plant, which are shaped like a hot dog or a cigar, depending on your taste, turn brown, they soon pop open. Thousands of tiny seed...

25 days ago
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About Those Damaged BWCA Fire Grates

A Smith Foundry grate.

While most campsites escaped the worst of the current fires, some fire grates in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area are likely to become minor casualties. A few, after years of weathering and use, may be crushed by falli...

a month ago

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    Canoe guy, environmental journalist. I look at the small things in nature. Board member of the nonprofit Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters. Coming in November: Rooted in the North: The Lives and Lore of Twenty Minnesota Nature Writers

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