MPR’s Tom Robertson reports from Bemidji, where a severe windstorms that ripped through northern Minnesota in July 1995, leaving destruction in Itasca State Park with thousands of lost trees. Park officials say the destruction is now bringing new life.
Severe windstorms, with straight line winds in excess of 100 miles per-hour ripped through northern Minnesota in July 1995, bending, breaking or uprooting more than seven million trees, mostly in an eight-mile-wide and 50-mile-long swath from Detroit Lakes to Bemidji.