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  • Spring Butterfly Trek

    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

  • Tiffany Bottoms Train Ride

    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.

  • Seminary Fen SNA Volunteer Event

    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

  • Seminary Fen SNA Volunteer Day

    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

  • Schueler Wildlife Management Area Field Trip (Rescheduled)

    The tour will include a rich diversity of spring ephemerals including snow trillium and squirrel corn, as well as rare ferns and sedges, on a large north-facing bluff along Rush Creek in northern Fillmore County.

    To register for the event, you can reply to this email with your name.

    Kind Regards,

    Jennifer

    Jennifer Kamm

    612-875-0543

    Jennifer.kamm@stantec.com

  • Tettegouche State Park

    Come join Kurt Mead and Joe Walewski for a tour of the Tettegouche State Park where participants will tour part of the Park in the morning followed by lunch on-site (bring your own) and then another walk to other areas of the property.

  • Judge C.R. Magney State Park

    Come join us as we say goodbye to summer and embrace fall while enjoying the scenic Judge C.R. Magney State Park. The field trip will be led by Chel Anderson and will involve a discussion of local natural history, late summer botany, and the scenery of one of Minnesota’s great State Parks.

  • Rare Plant and Plant Community Phenology at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

    Join us for a full day ecological and botanical field trip to the Bison Enclosure area of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, led by Jason Husveth. This is a unique opportunity to visit and botanize the diverse wetlands, prairies, and savannas within the Cedar Creek Bison Enclosure in a year where there will be no bison present. We discuss landscape setting, surficial geology and soils, hydrology, plant community ecology and rare species autecology. Jason will cover the identification of over a dozen rare plant species of the Anoka Sand Plain, including some of the rarest species in the state.