This is the Midwest’s climate change education event of the year! Come to the 2014 Summer Institute to connect with educators who care about quality teaching and who want to bring climate change and energy concepts to their educational setting. This is for formal and non-formal educators of grades 3-12 With the help of expert guest... Read more »
Join other River Gorge Stewards volunteers and staff from FMR and Saint Paul Parks & Recreation as we expand the native plant/restored area at this significant riverfront park! Volunteers will help install native wetland plants in to receive water from a large-scale native-prairie berm previously planted by FMR volunteers. This will help prevent erosion, build... Read more »
Dr. Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist at the University of California, Irvine and senior water scientist at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will present two lectures on research he leads that analyzes data derived from orbiting satellites operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Citizens, advocates, and all those interested in reducing mercury pollution in St. Louis River so that fish are safe for human consumption are invited to attend this public forum. The program will include a Science & History Panel, which will provide key information on the problem of mercury in the St. Louis River; a Policy... Read more »
On Thursday, Sept. 18, Jay Famiglietti, a University of California Irvine professor, will give a fascinating lecture on measuring declines in groundwater around the world through data collected by orbiting satellites. The two NASA satellites detect changes in the gravitational attraction of regions across the Earth. Groundwater seeping into aquifers or being pumped our of... Read more »
Just southeast of River Oaks Golf Course lies a riverfront bluff with stunning views and a special remnant bedrock bluff prairie. Unfortunately, this city park, River Oaks, is also home to a good deal of buckthorn and other invasive species. Roughly 30 years ago this remnant prairie was renown as a very high quality area... Read more »
Join Mississippi River Gorge Stewards volunteers to help remove invasive brush, including European buckthorn — the invasive woody species that degrades our local native plant communities and wildlife habitat — in the oak savanna and oak woodland in the Longfellow neighborhood of south Minneapolis. This area includes the highest quality plant communities remaining in the... Read more »
After a brief training, volunteers will help 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 Ecologist Joe Walton and Assistant Stewardship Coordinator Kate Clayton in the natural area most recently added to the Sand Coulee Scientific and Natural Area. Seed... Read more »
Centered around one of the most impressive landscape features in southern Washington County, Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park totals nearly 600 acres. The ravine for which it is named is approximately a half-mile wide with 80- to 100-foot slopes, and bisects the park north to south before ending in a small lake. Known as a... Read more »
Join Friends of the Mississippi River, Flint Hills Resources and Great River Greening as we return to the Flint Hills property within the Pine Bend Bluffs Natural Area along the Mississippi River — one of the largest and most diverse native ecosystems left in the metro area. The site is only accessible to the public... Read more »