Ansel Cazier (right) skates on Lake Superior with his friend George Belmore (left) at sunset Thursday, March 7, 2019 about a quarter mile offshore from Leif Erikson Park in Duluth, Minn.
Otherwise known as Lake Superior Aquaman, Jim Richardson set out a couple weeks ago to forge a skating path on Lake Superior partly out of a selfish desire to skate on the big lake while also providing an outlet so people wouldn’t go nuts during this seemingly relentless winter. Out of that desire was born the People’s Free Skate Rink, which sits about a quarter mile offshore from Duluth’s Leif Erikson Park and provides people a zig-zagging path of ice to skate on while also serving a place for people to congregate and hang out. There have been performances by local musicians like Robot Rickshaw and this weekend fire spinners are on tap to showcase their talents at the rink.
A peregrine falcon chick rests in the hands of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources interpretive naturalist Kurt Mead Monday, July 1, 2019 at Tettegouche State Park near Silver Bay, Minn.
Researchers and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources placed bands on two peregrine falcon chicks. The banding is part of an ongoing effort to monitor the peregrine falcons, which had disappeared from the region by the mid 1960s due to the pesticide DDT. The banding allows for monitoring the population, determining population trends, migration patterns, reproductive success and more. Tettegouche State Park has been the site of up to three nesting pair in any given year, which researchers say is significant.
To dramatize how deep the hole is around a damaged sewer drain, three-foot tall Ryley Alexander McKeon stands inside a damaged section of 10th Avenue East and Sixth Street in Duluth, Minn. Ryley's parents Tinita Olson and John McKeon say the damaged section of the street has been in a state of disrepair for at least the duration of the summer.
Competing with boxer shorts on his head, Jonathan Schultz of Duluth takes a break at the first aid station during the 18th Northwoods Snowshoe Championships at Lester Park in Duluth, Minn.
Surfers ride waves at sunrise on New Year's Day 2019 at Stony Point north of Duluth, Minnesota.
Madison police use pepper spray to disperse an unruly crowd Saturday, October 30, 2004 after they set fires, broke windows and raised mayhem during State Street's annual Halloween celebrations.
Local politicians and members of the media prepare to see Elmo and a chair go up in flames during a demonstration by Duluth firefighters on how they attack structure fires at the Lake Superior College fire training center near Gary-New Duluth.
A Tough Mudder Minnesota participant reacts to being shocked by live electrical wires during the Electric Eel obstacle in Somerset, Wisc. This particular reaction was the third shock in about five seconds for this participant.
Tom Fennessey of Superior works his way through a ropes course outside Wessman Arena on the University of Wisconsin-Superior campus during Haugfest in Superior, Wisc.
Members of the Minnesota-based National Socialist Movement cover all ends of the age spectrum. Here, young and old perform the Nazi salute during a rally by the Minnesota-based National Socialist Movement on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol Saturday, August 26, 2006 in Madison, WI.
The sun sets on Duluth's aerial lift bridge and the route left by United States Coast Guard Cutters Alder and Mackinaw Thursday, March 21, 2019 in Duluth, Minn.
Joe Mohelsky looks around floodwaters that surrounded his home on the shore of Moosehead Lake in Moose Lake, Minn. The buoys in front of Mohelsky were placed at 9pm the previous night at the edge of floodwaters and by 5a.m., the waters had reached his house and continued to rise throughout the day.
A great gray rests on a highway sign while hunting Tuesday, February 28, 2017 north of Two Harbors, Minn. The great gray is one of the world's largest species of owl.
Wayne Boniface flexes his arm while displaying a large bruise he got while fighting an intruder at his home in Duluth's Observation Hill neighborhood.
David Stevens of South Range comforts a horse that was rescued from frigid temperatures over the weekend Tuesday afternoon at Jeff Tucker's Raindance Farms.
U.S. Senator Al Franken does an impersonation of Senator Paul Wellstone ordering breakfast Thursday, October 25, 2012 at the Clinton town hall in Iron Junction, Minn.
Representative Andy Jorgensen (D-Fort Atkinson) yells at Representative Joel Kleefisch (R-Oconomowoc, not pictured) about his vote for Governor Walker's collective bargaining bill at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisc.
Steve Malzacher of Rock Hill Fire Corporation scans the forest for hot spots after stamping one out north of Island River in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness while fighting the Pagami Creek Fire.
Minnesota gubernatorial candidate John Marty waits to speak to delegates at the 2010 DFL convention at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Saturday morning in Duluth, MN.
Clarissa Pederson gets extra close to Magic, a miniature horse, during a presentation by the non-profit organization Windchill Legacy at the Montessori School of Duluth.
Coast Guard seaman Meyin Klin (left) and Petty Officer Eduardo Gutierrez (center) walk with Steven Broudy (right) to the Superior Entry Lighthouse Monday, October 7, 2019 in Superior, Wisconsin.
Broudy, a 34-year old tech industry executive from San Francisco who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, won the lighthouse, which sits on the tip of Wisconsin Point in Superior, Wisc. at auction with a high bid of $159,000. Broudy plans to renovate the interior and restore the lighthouse to its original state while spending a few weeks every summer there. He is also entertaining the idea of renting it out as writer's retreat or through Airbnb.
Assembly minority leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) holds a lighter to a book containing the laws of congressional procedure while accusing Assembly Republicans of running amok of those laws at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisc.
The front doorsteps are all that remain of an oceanside home near Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka Friday, January 14, 2005.
A giant sinkhole along Skyline Parkway near Ninth Avenue East captured this car after heavy rains caused flooding in Duluth, Minn.
Teacher Jen McGorray poses as a murder victim beside fake blood as her class of future crime scene investigators prepares to gather evidence in the summer enrichment class "CSI: Madison" at Cherokee Middle School.
Wisconsin Assemblyman Daniel LaMaheiu (R-Oostburg) shows his fatigue as the State Assembly slowly moves toward voting on the issue of legalizing gay marriage March 10, 2004 at the State Capitol in Madison, WI.
Joan Tabelle says her home was installed on an unacceptable foundation and as a result it needs to be hauled away for repairs. A litany of other problems with the home and its tornado tie-downs were also documented by the state and were a result of poor work by various contractors according to Tabelle.
Jim Richardson, or as some may know him, Lake Superior Aquaman, poses for a portrait with his trident Thursday, March 7, 2019 on the surface of Lake Superior about a quarter mile offshore from Leif Erikson Park in Duluth, Minn.
Otherwise known as Lake Superior Aquaman, Jim Richardson set out a couple weeks ago to forge a skating path on Lake Superior partly out of a selfish desire to skate on the big lake while also providing an outlet so people wouldn’t go nuts during this seemingly relentless winter. Out of that desire was born the People’s Free Skate Rink, which sits about a quarter mile offshore from Duluth’s Leif Erikson Park and provides people a zig-zagging path of ice to skate on while also serving a place for people to congregate and hang out. There have been performances by local musicians like Robot Rickshaw and this weekend fire spinners are on tap to showcase their talents at the rink.
Farmer Joe Mathers of Fitchburg, Wisc. waves a flag while driving around the square of the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisc. Mathers was part of a parade of tractors riding around the Capitol in opposition of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's plan to remove most collective bargaining rights from public employees.
Sailboats glide over Lake Superior while a rainbow forms after a rainfall drenched the Twin Ports.
Smoke from the Ham Lake Fire makes the sun appear blood red in Grand Marais as the fire continues its advance.
Confetti falls and John Kerry thanks a crowd of over 100,000 people that crowded onto West Washington Avenue Thursday, October 28, 2004 to hear the Democratic candidate for President speak.
Wildlife Research Institute biologist Lynn Rogers hand feeds June, a 300-plus-pound pregnant black bear, on Thursday, August 30th, 2012 in the woods near Ely, Minn.
In a rare moment of calm, one of Colleen and Ward Wallin's dogs sits calmly before a training run Thursday, January 21, 2016 at the Wallin's Silver Creek Sled Dogs property near Two Harbors, Minn.
A large explosion rises from the site of the Husky Energy oil refinery Thursday, April 26, 2018 in Superior, Wisc. as seen from the site of Superior Middle School.
A series of explosions impacted the site of the Husky Energy oil refinery resulting in multiple injuries and evacuations for miles around the facility.
Twiggy the Squirrel water skis at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center in Duluth, Minn.
Claire Sparling walks past the wall outside the Grand Portage National Monument Friday, August 12, 2016 during Rendezvous Days in Grand Portage, Minn.
The three-day event celebrates and recreates the intersection of Ojibwe people and the North West Company and their people, explorers and traders during its heyday in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
The Winnipeg-native was in period costume as a tailoress, but made it clear that women of her profession were not common fixtures at the site. "Women in my profession would not normally be at a place like Grand Portage in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but rather in some place like Quebec," Sparling said.
A wolf roams in the wilderness of northwest Wisconsin near the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources pilot Phillip Miller took to the air to track a number of radio-collared wolves that included packs of 11 and nine as well as a few pairs and one solitary animal.
A star dedicated to Bob Dylan sits in the sidewalk just outside Zimmy's Wednesday, December 7, 2016 in Hibbing, Minn.
Zimmy's was once operated as a tribute to and unofficial museum for Bob Dylan until it closed in 2014.
Spin Collective member Denise Cooper practices near
Park Point along the shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn.
Waves pound the shoreline in Canal Park Wednesday, October 10, 2018 in Duluth, Minn. as a strong fall storm affects northern Minnesota.
Wind gusts as high as 86 miles per hour were measured near Castle Danger, Minn. according to the National Weather Service Duluth office. Hurricane force winds start at 74 miles per hour.
A deer bursts out of a bathroom inside a hallway leading to the Our Lady Queen of Peace chapel at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth. The deer burst through a window near the chapel and ran directly into a bathroom where it became trapped.
The northern lights dance Tuesday, March 17, 2015 over Boulder Lake north of Duluth, Minn.
The 739-foot long Thunder Bay passes through the Duluth ship canal Thursday, June 23, 2016 in Duluth, Minn.
Musher Rita Wehseler and her dogs push forward across Poplar Lake at Trail Center Monday, January 26, 2015 during the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon.
Workers exit the Herbert C. Jackson along a walkway and numerous ropes Friday, February 5, 2016 at Fraser Shipyards in Superior, Wisc.
The Herbert C. Jackson is in dry dock undergoing a "repowering," which entails replacing its old and inefficient fuel oil engine with a new diesel propulsion system to meet stricter emission standards.
