ecology
Help Tend the Crosby Prairie
Join this award-winning and important restoration effort! Volunteers will help remove invasive species from the demonstration interpretive prairie at Crosby Park. All supplies and equipment are provided.
Please see our website for more information and registration. Pre-registration is required.
Explore Urban Wetland Ecology at Crosby Park
Join experts from Friends of the Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers and Capitol Region Watershed District as they explore the plant life in and around Crosby Park's Upper Lake and the surrounding marsh. In experiencing the ecology of this urban wetland, we’ll learn the importance of plants that provide habitat and filter pollutants from water. In addition, we’ll collect
Plant Trees for the Vermillion River
Join the staff of the MN Department of Natural Resources to plant trees along the Vermillion River as a stream stabilization project. Adding more native trees to the area will increase root mass in the soil holding the streambank in place and preventing it from eroding into the water and impairing habitat.
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Home Gardening Revisited
The Twin Cities inspire deep affection in their inhabitants, myself included, yet so much of this place remains unexplored and unexperienced: the stories of a neighbor, the sight of midsummer stars during a Lake Harriet canoe ride, the teeming life in the soil beneath our feet, or simply the unrealized capacity for connection and interaction with our communities.MORE »
Autumn Farm Fair at Prairie Oaks Institute
Celebrating the opening of Prairie Oaks Institute at Robert Creek
St. Paul Raingardens Walking Tour
Led by staff from Capitol Region Watershed District (CRWD) and Metro Conservation Districts, and hosted by Friends of the Mississippi River, this tour features several raingardens in St. Paul’s "Garden District." Each was constructed by CRWD and St.
Crosby Prairie Worknight
Help tend a volunteer-planted demonstration interpretive native prairie at Crosby Farm Regional Park!
Beyond reflection: Minneapolis artist combines art and ecology
When I visited Proctor in 2005, he had recently finished his first buckthorn installation, The Buckthorn Menace (TBM), along the western shore of the Mississippi River Road in Minneapolis.MORE »
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