Tom Cherveny is a regional and outdoors reporter for the West Central Tribune. He has been a reporter with the West Central Tribune since 1993. Cherveny can be reached via email at tcherveny@wctrib.com or by phone at 320-214-4335.| Bemidji Pioneer
Rural counties experience greater natural losses as deaths continue to outpace births. But there is in-migration attributed to people moving from urban to rural areas for jobs.| Bemidji Pioneer