The 165-mile Mesabi Trail is complete, and officials expect record crowds to top last year's 285,000 riders.

The planned addition would push protected Darby watershed land past 10,000 acres, with wetlands and prairie restoration planned over several years.

Daphne Hinton, 83, and daughter Martile Blackman kept Square One Ranch whole — and open to Florida panthers roaming past their fences.