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Article: College merger could be big deal; Minnesota's College of Natural Resources is merging with the School of Agriculture, which could be both good and bad.(SPORTS)(Dennis Anderson)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 19, 2006
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Byline: Dennis Anderson; Staff Writer
If you live in Minnesota and value its lakes, rivers, forests and fields, you should know a lot about, and support, the U, particularly its College of Natural Resources.
You should.
But probably don't.
That's partly the college's fault. But it's also our fault, yours and mine. Because for too long the university and its College of Natural Resources have labored in relative obscurity - training our future fish, wildlife and forestry managers and industry professionals, and conducting important research - but otherwise affecting us not very much. At least not directly.
That needs to change. ...