This is the fourth of four articles excerpted from his first report focusing on Southeast Minnesota ... Make a bike, canoe or cross-country ski trip along the Cannon River through the picturesque ...

"People in this part of Southeast Minnesota or Wisconsin ... authorizes funding for a potential bike trail along a railroad right of way in the Root River Valley from Fountain through Rushford.

Root River Trail Towns was created in 1988 to market the Root River and Harmony-Preston Valley state bike trails ... as next president of Minnesota State College Southeast.

Among the state's 35 water trails with 4,500 miles of paddling, the often-overlooked rivers of southeast Minnesota ... south river guide, I decided to make it complicated by bringing my bike ...