Derek Tonn

Enthusiast.

Lake Superior aficionado. Roller Derby Official. He/Him.

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@thewrongmolly How much did you tweet? Lol

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@vincempls Middle car? There was a 3 car train out there yesterday?

Also I can confirm it is faster to walk between Union Depot and 10th St if St Paul signals are f'd. Because I've seen people do it lol

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@vincempls @s0phistry Really cool we spent a billion dollars to rebuild a worse verson of what we threw away.

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@vincempls @s0phistry The streetcars also took about 45 minutes. And were more frequent. And carried more passengers.

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@vincempls Ohhh, makes more sense

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@rhett_carlson @urbanahnjo @kar_nels @MetroTransitMN End to end blue line trains are scheduled to take 45 minutes. In 12 minute service 9 trains are used. I think the replacement bus takes on average 75 minutes, so more busses are required to maintain 12 min service. They may have extra busses on standby in case one fills up, too

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The best video from a Wolf project. And it's cats. 👏

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

Without a doubt, our best trail camera capture yet: the first documented observation of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota in modern history. Turn up the volume to hear all the vocalizations.

The footage, which was captured on March 25, shows a cougar with 3 large kittens while they feed on a deer they killed just south of Voyageurs National Park.

We captured this surreal footage because we started a study to understand the survival and mortality patterns of deer in our area this winter. As part of that work, we GPS-collared several deer in the area in January. 

In late March, we received a mortality signal from a GPS-collared deer and found the carcass buried under a pile of leaves on a hillside—a tell tale sign of feline predation. 

We suspected it was likely a bobcat but thought, just possibly, it could be a cougar. So we put up two trail cameras on the cached deer carcass and 4 hours later, two cougar kittens returned to the kill.

The entire family showed up that evening and spent hours in front of our cameras. In total, we captured 7.3 hr (435 minutes) of video footage of these animals. We will share more footage soon!

Huge thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for supporting the Voyageurs Wolf Project and the recent effort to understand deer survival in the area. Their support was critical to this observation—without it, we would never have captured this footage.

And huge thanks to the >10,600 donors who have supported our project and enabled us to purchase trail cameras supplies. The cameras (and batteries, SD cards, mounts) we set at this kill were purchased with funds from donations.

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@thewrongmolly Yup.

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@mollywidstrom But also like, I'd go watch a sunset there without a train, too...

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@mollywidstrom

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@peachontwitta Some, sure. But when your 113.5 gram'r with cheese/fromage and poutine costs C$18.95 +VAT, I think a lot will go for imported delicacies from Wisconsin: Culver's.

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@peachontwitta No one is gonna go to McDonald's for a 100 gram'r with cheese... 😜

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@thewrongmolly Related to the graffiti at Trump's golf course there?

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@MaxHailperin Yes. Or even if it wasn't crossing over, just bringing it back to a station so the passengers can transfer to the train that is able to continue.

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@MaxHailperin It does sound like they were single tracking between Raymond and Prospect Park due to a auto accident blocking track 2 (normal eastbound track). I can't confirm two westbound trains moving side by side, but it's entirely possible if the crash cleared up they both moved together

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@MaxHailperin Where was this? And did you see both trains moving, or were they stopped but 'facing' the same direction?

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@mollywidstrom At least its not early this time.

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I see the new administration is off to a great start.