CURE (Clean Up the River Environment)

This is going to be an amazing operation to relocate mussels back into the Minnesota River so that they do not die. The Army Corps of Engineers and the DNR are working to return the river to its original channel and there is a stretch that will be redirected and if we don’t remove the […]

This event is a collaboration between the DNR and CURE in an effort to get more people out on the landscape enjoying all that southwestern Minnesota has to offer. Get ready to explore winter by learning to lace your own pair of traditional wood frame Ojibwe-style snowshoes. Learn which knots to use and how to weave the […]

  This event is a collaboration between the DNR and CURE in an effort to get more people out on the landscape enjoying all that southwestern Minnesota has to offer. Lac qui Parle State Park will be hosting its 3rd annual Candlelight Hike in the Lower Campground area of the park from 6:30-9:30 pm on February […]

On June 11, National Get Outdoors Day, CURE partnered with the MN DNR for year two of the “Paddle the Minnesota River in a Day” event.   The Minnesota River Trail is 318 miles long beginning at the foot of Big Stone Lake and ending at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.   The goal for […]

Transform your hobbies into important scientific data! Whether you are a birder, like nature photography or simply watching lightening bugs flicker during warm summer nights you are ready to be a scientist!