

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Winter Lecture Series: Reclaiming Minnesota's Mined Lands
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This presentation will delve into state-of-the-art conservation, reclamation, and repurposing practices over the past 120 years of Minnesota’s iron mining history. From lean ore stockpiling techniques to the creation of award-winning mountain bike parks, Pete Kero will talk about how innovations in mine land management have led to resource conservation, community betterment, ecological restoration and improvements in the social license to operate.

Pete Kero Bio:
Pete is the visionary behind the award-winning Redhead Mountain Bike Park in Chisholm, Minnesota, a project which repurposed several former iron mine pits and stockpiles into a destination-quality regional park for mountain biking, hiking, non-motorized water recreation and all-terrain vehicles. The project has been featured in Outside Magazine and the nation-wide documentary film Biketown. His book Minescapes: Reclaiming Minnesota’s Mined Lands won a 2024 Minnesota Book Award and will be available for purchase after the presentation.

Cost is $8-15 per person.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/grand-rapids/winter-lecture-series-reclaiming-minnesotas-mined-lands/200029247186330
- **Event Categories**: art, trips-adventures, entertainment, trekking
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 27

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Grand Rapids
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2609 County Road 76, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, Minnesota 55744
- **lat**: 47.22427
- **long**: -93.56762
- **full address**: 2609 County Road 76, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, Minnesota 55744

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- **organizer**: Forest History Center (https://allevents.in/org/forest-history-center/25944337)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 2609 County Road 76, Grand Rapids, MN, United States, Minnesota 55744
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Forest History Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, trips-adventures, entertainment, trekking
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Winter Lecture Series: Reclaiming Minnesota's Mined Lands ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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