(Raymond Grumney/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(Raymond Grumney/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Losing natural land to farming
Since 2006 the upper Mississippi watershed has lost 275 square miles of forests and other natural land that has been converted to agriculture. Now state regulators are scrambling for ways to protect a valuable but sensitive aquifer, which lies beneath the area, from the accelerating loss of pineland woods.
February 4, 2015 at 12:13AM
Family members and a lawyer say they have been blocked from access to the bedside of Bonfilia Sanchez Dominguez, while her husband was detained and shipped to Texas within 24 hours.
