Dedicated to the conservation and appreciation of Minnesota’s native plants and plant communities
This trip is scheduled for May 13 -OR- May 20, depending on weather. For a dozen years now, Stillwater butterfly enthusiast Dean Hansen has led a day-long trip to look for spring butterflies in the jack pine/oak barrens in northwest
Come join your fellow MNNPS friends on Saturday, September 9th for the unique experience of an open air, antique train ride into an expansive, high quality floodplain forest of the Chippewa River in Wisconsin.
Presenter: Welby Smith, State Botanist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources The recorded presentation is available on the Videos page. Please join us for the upcoming monthly meeting with our presenter, Welby Smith, who will discuss his newly published
Presenter: Laura Reuling, Research Scientist, University of Minnesota The recorded program is available on the Video page. Laura Reuling is a researcher scientist at the University of Minnesota in the silviculture program. Her research explores applied questions about forest ecology,
Speakers and Topics 8:30-9:00 Registration 9:00-9:20 Welcome to the Symposium and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 9:20-10:20 White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree. John Pastor, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota Duluth 10:20-11:20 Adaptive Silviculture for
Presented by: Angela Miner and Deanna Leigh. The recorded Zoom presentation is available on the Video page. MN PlantWatch is a new community science initiative that supports the conservation of Minnesota's rare native plants. Volunteers search for plants in their
Please join your fellow MNNPS members in an effort to remove buckthorn that is encroaching on a rare plant population at Seminary Fen SNA on Sunday March 3, 2024, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. We will be cutting and treating
Presenter: Fred Harris, plant ecologist, MN DNR (retired) The recorded Zoom presentation is available on the Video page. Plant of the Month: The genus Phemeranthus “Everything you ever wanted to know about Phemeranthus, but…” Talk Summary: MN Biological Survey has
The recorded presentation is available on the Video page. 7:00 PM Meeting starts, doors will open at 6:30 PM Talk Summary: Beaver dams and beaver mimicry (e.g. Beaver Dam Analogs) are gaining popularity as a low‐cost, nature-based strategy to build
Please join your fellow MNNPS members in an effort to remove buckthorn that is encroaching on a rare plant population at Seminary Fen SNA on Sunday April 14, 2024, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. We will be cutting and treating