Zack Mohlis

Father, husband, historian, guide. Minnesota & Midwest enjoyer. Exploring the history of the land. 🇺🇸

[Zack Mohlis @zmohlis]

@KJP One of these men is Kyle. The other is Keel.

[Zack Mohlis @zmohlis]

In our home, “Can you warm up my coffee?” means to pour some more hot coffee in the mug. If you just want the contents of your mug to get warmed without adding more, you ask “Can you zap this for me?” and then it goes in the microwave.

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@owroot When I’m guiding hikes, I’ll often ask people to imagine that landscape and that feeling. And then the work of the survey crews who went out (in the 1850s in my neck of the woods) to walk straight lines through undeveloped land, mapping sections & townships. Uncharted territory.

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There is something to be said for having a job where, if you tell people what it is, they understand right away what you do, can envision you doing the work, and see value in it. Maybe it doesn’t even pay the best, but there is value in this, too.

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@Watchman_motto There is some kind of copper colored details on the roof surface on the door overhang. What am I looking at there?

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@wrowclif HR had to manually add him for me. Still not sure why the system is designed to lock you out of adjusting benefits right when you need it most, but they said that’s just what ADP does. So it all worked out.

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@EBischoff If you’re interested, I’d love to chat sometime about Verne and the property. I’m always trying to learn and understand more how that played out so I can share the honest story and respect his legacy as best I can. DMs are open if you’re willing to chat.

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@EBischoff Hey Eric, I’m a lifelong wrestling fan, and I’m also a history educator for this park district and lead history tours on this property. As part of that, I teach people about Verne’s life and career and a bit about this difficult chapter.

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Finally a good post about the recent Boundary Waters adjacent mining vote. I greatly appreciate having a conservation org like @ACC_National that understands nuance, while other orgs just spread the misleading headlines they are fed.

[American Conservation Coalition @ACC_National]

You may have seen headlines about Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters being opened to foreign mining operations. You’re probably concerned, and we understand why.

Here's what actually happened with the Superior National Forest vote, and what it means for our public lands: 🧵

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@AlphaNews When we filled out the form, I noticed a page that said something like “These questions help us make sure these benefits are distributed based on equity.” It would be interesting to know how that plays into who gets paid and who gets the runaround.

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@KJP Reminds me of the blue on my old Dyno VFR bike from 1999 (found a photo of the same one online). Not sure whatever happened to it, but I wish I still had it hanging in my garage today.

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@Watchman_motto You see these on the handful of Midwestern farms that have granted public easements to let trout anglers access the creeks in their pastures. Always loved walking up the stile and greeting a herd of curious cattle before heading to the honey hole.

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@owroot More evidence of the greatness of small books you can fit in your pocket.

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@owroot My dad had shelves full of them. I remember notiving none of his had covers— I guess he would get them for free/cheap from the bookstore when they were recycling the books that weren’t selling. In many of my memories of him, he’s holding a folded over coverless Louis L’Amour.

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Daniel Justus family, in front of their old log cabin near Swede Lake in Carver County, Minnesota.

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Great horned owl sitting in a nest of oak leaves. An owlet was peeking out the other side.

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Visited this amazing piece of history stored in a random pole barn in rural Hennepin County, MN. This Birdsell clover huller belonged to Wendelin Grimm, who originated the first winter-hardy alfalfa in America, which fed the cows of the dairy industry across the Midwest and USA.

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@mnhouseDFL I already greatly appreciate @WalterHudson but, please, keep showing me exactly why.

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@KJP @MichaelTG09 @Bug_Hall Got ya by a month. Back when we used hashtags and budgeted our characters wisely.