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12/8 Could climate change restore the Karner Blue Butterfly to Minnesota?

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published December 9, 2015 at 10:13 AM CST
Photo by Jill Utrup

It's a tiny little butterfly; only about an inch wide.

So you may not have noticed that the Karner Blue Butterfly hasn't been seen in Minnesota in the last decade.

And while conversations about climate change rarely include good news ... the Minnesota DNR thinks perhaps climate change could increase the butterfly's habitat and bring it back to the state.
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Environment & Outdoors Northland Morning InterviewsMN Department of Natural ResourcesMN DNRRichard BakerMinnesota Endangered Species Coordinator
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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