Two Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park workers are retiring after a combined 50 years at the park and more than 80 years with North Dakota Parks and Recreation.
Manager Dan Schelskeâs last day at the park south of Mandan was March 15. Assistant Park Manager Maureen Trnka will call it a career April 19.
Schelske started out as a seasonal worker at Fort Stevenson State Park in 1980. His path to Fort Lincoln included stops at Lake Metigoshe, Fort Ransom, Lake Sakakawea and Grahams Island state parks. He became manager at Fort Lincoln in 2004. Trnkaâs career started at Lake Metigoshe in 1980. Sheâs been an assistant at Fort Lincoln since 1988.
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This was the temperature reading at 8:30 a.m. this past Saturday at Lake Metigoshe State Park. The National Weather Service is in the process of verifying instrument accuracy.
BOTTINEAU – The automated thermometer reading was minus 59.6 when Steve Schepp stepped into the ranger’s office at Lake Metigoshe State Park this past Saturday morning, a mere 4-tenths of a degree warmer than the state record 60 below zero recorded in Parshall on Feb. 15, 1936.
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Many people can’t believe the reading is true. The National Weather Service has begun the process of verifying the data, determining if the equipment they issued was functioning properly.