Unveiled – the 2025 Zumbro Endurance Run T-Shirt! All runners and volunteers will receive this awesome shirt.
The eastern Gray Squirrel, who has cameoed in past Zumbro art, was the inspiration for this years t-shirt. Anytime I take a run at Zumbro on a quiet / windless day I enjoy the sounds, near and far, of squirrels rustling in the leaves on the ground, and performing their acrobatics in the tree canopy above. The Zumbro Endurance Run takes place in the Zumbro Bottoms Management Unit which resides within the Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood Forest – an expansive 1.7 million acre tract of Minnesota hardwood forest on the Northern edge of the Driftless Region. Eastern Gray Squirrels play a crucial role in Minnesota’s hardwood forests by acting as seed dispersers, helping to regenerate tree populations through their caching and forgetting behaviors, which lead to the planting of seeds in new locations.
