Finishing the Year at The Bog
Northern Hawk Owl on a gray, drizzly day It's hard to believe that 2025 has come and gone! My Green Big Year was a great success. In all, I biked over 830 miles and hiked an additional 110 miles to end up with 241 species total, breaking the previous Minnesota Green Big Year mark of 238 set by Gregg Severson. While my original goal was to get 250 species, I’m still quite pleased with how things turned out. With the weather unsuitable for biking, I decided to spend the last day of 2025 at the same place that I spent the first day of the year - at Sax-Zim Bog. I took some leave and left work early on the 30th. The drive up was not a pleasant one. The roads were ok, but freezing rain that accumulated faster than my wipers could clear it off my windshield was not pleasant! White-knuckle driving at its' finest. Fortunately, after about the first hour the rain mostly stopped, and I was able to make it up to the bog safely. As I was approaching along the highway a few miles south of ...