Join us on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 from 6pm to 8pm as we return to this riverfront park to tend an important native demonstration prairie garden along the bike trail. This event will help further our long-term transformation and commitment at this site and to the river. Although a small urban site, Ole Olson is home to... Read more »

Join us on Saturday, September 17, 2016 from 9am to 12pm as we help to preserve and restore the oak woodlands at 3M's Cottage Grove facility near the Mississippi River. Former invasive species thickets are now home to wildflowers and wildlife, helping to connect adjacent natural areas and form part of a green corridor in southern Washington County.We... Read more »

The MN Tracking Club will lead a wildlife tracking excursion at the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, modeled on Jon Young's 8 Shields model for nature connection and tracking.

Join us at the Science Museum of Minnesota on September 22, 2016 from 7pm to 8:30pm as we launch and present the newly updated State of the River Report! FMR has partnered with the National Park Service's Mississippi National River & Recreation Area unit to update the "State of the River Report," first released in 2012, which... Read more »

Join us Saturday, September 24, 9:00-11:00 a.m. in the beautiful Sand Coulee Scientific & Natural Area just south of Hastings.After a brief training, volunteers will help hand collect much-needed native prairie seed while enjoying this rare example of a sand-gravel prairie in full fall bloom. Volunteers will work with FMR Lead Ecologist Karen Schik in... Read more »

Please mark your calendars for Fresh Energy’s first annual benefit breakfast, a great opportunity to learn about positive energy solutions and the progress we can make together.Featured speaker Ramez Naam, a computer scientist, futurist, and award-winning author, will inspire us all. Ramez spent 13 years at Microsoft, developing early versions of Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer. Now an acclaimed thought... Read more »

What’s one of the simplest, high-impact ways to save water and help protect our watershed? Using a rain barrel.Join us on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 from 6pm to 7:30pm for our popular rain barrel workshop where we’ll discuss the watershed-friendly benefits of rain barrels in more detail, then review how to build, incorporate, install and... Read more »

Join us on Saturday, October 8, 2016 from 9:00am to 11:00am at Heritage Village Park, just south of St. Paul in Inver Grove Heights.In 2005, FMR wrote a natural resource management plan to help guide restoration of the park. Today, the park has over 30 acres of restored, native prairie, as well as areas of... Read more »