Barbara Jean Johnson

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  • Username: bjean
  • News and Public Affairs Director/Web content manager
  • Role: Multimedia: Station Based

Recent Pieces from Barbara Jean Johnson

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MN Native News- MN Chippewa Tribe Welcomes New Executive Director, Beth Drost (05:00)
From: Ampers

Drost grew up in Grand Portage and is an enrolled member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Her interest in tribal politics traces back to her childhood and ...
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg

Climate Change & The Future - Part 2 (05:25)
From: WTIP

There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase in storminess, declining ...
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg

Climate Change & The Future - Part 1 (05:55)
From: WTIP

There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase in storminess, declining ...
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg

Changing Climate, Changing Forest - Part II (04:49)
From: WTIP

There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase in storminess and declining ...
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The Ghost of Bucko Bushman (04:43)
From: WTIP

The past is never that far away. Everything that has happened in this tiny corner of the world is present today. In this edition of WTIP North Shore Community Radio's series ...
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Slower Times (05:56)
From: WTIP

Grand Marais, Minnesota, has always been a small town, but for many who grew up in the community, it feels much bigger and busier than it did in the past. Buck Benson and ...
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Winter Ice (03:15)
From: WTIP

Art Fenstad is a descendant of a North Shore fishing family. A lot has changed since Art's ancestors immigrated here in the late 1800s. One thing that's very different these ...
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Changing Climate, Changing Forest (04:35)
From: WTIP

There are a lot of ways climate change stands to affect Lake Superior. There's the reduction in ice cover, rising lake temperatures, the increase in storminess and declining ...
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Travis Novitsky

On Thin Ice (06:27)
From: WTIP

Things are heating up in the Lake Superior basin. Temps are rising, ice cover is shrinking and life is changing. There are 60 days less ice now then 100 years ago on the big ...
Caption: A class full of school children at the Birchwood School in Mineral Center, Credit: Cook County Historical Society

Growing Up in Mineral Center (06:45)
From: WTIP

Although not much is left of the town of Mineral Center these days, it was once a bustling settler village full of homesteaders, many of whom came from Wisconsin in search of ...