Minnesota Iditarod finisher encourages more women of color to get outdoors and explore
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Emily Ford, the 34-year-old native of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, who now calls Duluth home, spent 13 days mushing her dogs along the Yukon River in Alaska in this year's Iditarod race.
Ford says it was a rigorous, yet peaceful course.
"You [and the dogs] are an entire team moving together across the landscape," said Ford. "It's not like you're running a machine, or you have a motor. These dogs are near silent going across the land. It's kind of mesmerizing. It's such a cool way to move around the world."

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We share our planet with maybe 10 million species of plants, animals, birds, fish, fungi and bugs. And to help identify them, millions of people are using a free phone app. "Currently we have about six million people using the platform every month," said Scott Loarie, the executive director of iNaturalist, a nonprofit.

At ski resorts across the West this winter, viral images showed chairlifts idling over brown terrain in places normally renowned for their frosty appeal. Iconic mountain towns like Aspen, Colorado, and Park City, Utah, were seen with shockingly bare slopes, as the region endured a historic snow drought that experts warn could bring water shortages and wildfires in the months ahead. In:










