Tame winter good for wildlife, mixed bag for outdoors enthusiasts
As the book on January closes, the winter of 2020-21 is shaping up as a bit of a wimp by North Country standards, both in terms of temperature and snowfall, which remains scarce across the region. Written By: Brad Dokken | ×
A herd of deer graze in stubble from edible beans west of Park River, N.D., this week. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
It’s been a few years since the region saw a winter as tame as this one.
That certainly was the trend up until earlier this week, when temperatures in parts of northwest Minnesota and northeast North Dakota plummeted into the minus-30 range, according to the National Weather Service.