An air quality map shows conditions improving in the U.S. on Friday as smoke from the Canadian wildfires subsides.

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota ... Forest Fire Centre reporting 217 active wildfires as of June 13, with 98 burning out of control. As of June 13, the National Interagency ...

Three wildfires in northern Minnesota’s Arrowhead region have ... the Greenwood Lake fire burned about 42 acres of Superior National Forest in 2021. A decade prior, Pagami Creek’s blaze ...

Inside Minnesota’s Chippewa National Forest, a patch of old-growth trees ... In the 1800s, settlers’ early maps of northern Minnesota were labeled only “Abundant Pine.” ...

This story was originally published by Project Optimist, a nonprofit that serves Greater Minnesota through journalism ... the 3-million-acre Superior National Forest (SNF), which includes the ...