Roaring trucks, frac sand dust disrupt a river town

The Star Tribune's Jon Tevlin traveled to McGregor, Iowa, in his ongoing coverage of frac sand issues

September 28, 2012 at 7:30PM

In late September, Metro Columnist Jon Tevlin visited McGregor, Iowa, where an expanding frac sand mine brought lots of needed jobs, but also headaches for the tourism industry. Click here to read it.

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Tony Kennedy is an outdoors writer covering Minnesota news about fishing, hunting, wildlife, conservation, BWCA, natural resource management, public land, forests and water.

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