Employees at the freshwater lab were told they could leave their jobs or apply for a limited number of new jobs elsewhere in the EPA, and funding for an estimated 25 early-career researchers ended.
At virtual meetings Tuesday, employees were told to focus on wrapping up current projects and to download personnel files from their work computers, two people who attended the meetings said.
Radar tracks put Michael Bratlie, an experienced military and commercial pilot, just past Two Harbors, Minnesota, in his two-engine plane. There the flight path apparently ended.
Developers from Duluth and Brainerd want to transform the historic Silver Rapids Lodge into a resort featuring a new lodge, restaurant and bar, indoor pool, hot tub and tiki bar.
Under the National Park Service鈥檚 favored option, 52 of the structures would be preserved, 23 would be 鈥渟tabilized,鈥� 18 would be left to deteriorate in place and seven would be removed.
