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Minnesota’s North Shore

Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United States

This will be our first in-person meeting for the plant society in over three years and we hope some of you are able to join us once again! For those who are unable to be there, the option of viewing the presentation through Zoom will continue to take place.

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.

Discussion on Welby Smith’s newly published book, Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota

Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United States

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

Minnesota’s Peatlands: Climate Change, Carbon, and Cool Plants

Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United States

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,

2023 Symposium: Minnesota’s Forests, Today and Tomorrow

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 3675 Arboretum Dr., Chaska, MN, United States

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

MN PlantWatch

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

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