Northern Wilds: Riding the Green Wave—Surfrider Foundation Chapter Growing in Minnesota

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Riding the Green Wave—Surfrider Foundation Chapter Growing in Minnesota

When Matt Pensyl moved to Duluth from San Diego in 2008, he sold his surfboards. As he wrote in an email interview, “I thought my surfing days were behind me.”

Then his wife, “Bless her heart,” discovered that Minnesota harbored a budding chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting water quality, beach access, and threatened surf breaks. Pensyl got involved. (Fellow Surfrider member Graeme Thickins described him as “kind of a master at organizing events.”) Now he is helping the chapter stage a local celebration of International Surfing Day.

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