SAVE THE DATE!!! Land Stewardship Project and CURE are excited to announce the date of our next Tallgrass Prairie BioBlitz. Saturday, July 17th, 2021 8am to 8pm Lac qui Parle State Park What is a BioBlitz you ask? It is a period of time where we gather to learn about the prairie and all that […]
Minnesota Master Naturalist
Elktoe Mussels in the Pomme de Terre River
Contributed by Peg Furshong, Operations & Director of Programs My thirteen-year-old daughter is not a fan of rising early on the weekend. Still, this particular Saturday in early October, she woke and declared, “Mom, it is going to be a great day!” Her excitement was that we were headed out to the Pomme de Terre […]
Freshwater Mussel Field Day 2020
Join us for our sixth annual freshwater mussel field day with MN DNR malacologist, Bernard Sietman. You will be hard-pressed to find anyone as passionate and knowledgeable about mussels as this transplanted Missourian. Since 2002, he has worked across Minnesota surveying mussels. One of the more exciting aspects of his job is the potential discovery […]