Northland Dreams - Building Central Minnesota's Largest Bike Skills Park

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Explore Minnesota More , we sit down with Trevor Pumnea , Executive Director of the Northland Arboretum , to discuss one of the most exciting recreation projects in Central Minnesota - transforming a former landfill into the region’s largest bike skills park . Trevor shares his unconventional journey from building logging roads in Idaho to earning a PhD in Parks and Recreation, eventually leading efforts to revitalize the Brainerd-Baxter area through bold outdoor recreation projects.

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