Minnesota
Minnesota flooding threatens influential environmentalist’s property
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Flooding in northern Minnesota is threatening a famend environmentalist’s retreat.
Flooding is threatening many properties within the Wet River Basin, the Star Tribune reported. Wet Lake simply exterior of Worldwide Falls is anticipated to rise one other foot within the subsequent few days and break a 1950 document.
Resort, cabin and enterprise homeowners throughout the area have been filling sandbags for days. One of many properties is environmentalist Ernest Oberholtzer’s retreat on Mallard Island.
Oberholtzer lived on Mallard Island till 1957 and lobbied in opposition to a collection of proposed dams within the northern watershed within the Twenties, an effort that helped set up the Boundary Waters Canoe Space Wilderness and Voyageurs Nationwide Park.
His property is listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations and capabilities as a public retreat. Caretakers have eliminated a group of literature from its library however a piano in one other constructing sits in a number of inches of water.