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.
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Discussion on Welby Smith’s newly published book, Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresenter: 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 StatesPresenter: 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 StatesSpeakers 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
Comparing the impacts of patch-burn grazing on vegetation in two northern tallgrass prairies
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesPresenter: 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
Smokey the Beaver: how beaver dams keep riparian corridors green during droughts and wildfires
Dakota Lodge 1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe 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
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
Collaborating to Conserving Native Characeae in Minnesota Lakes
This will be an on-line Zoom meeting only. MNNPS members, check your email for instructions. 7:00 PM Meeting starts Program: Collaborating to Conserving Native Characeae in Minnesota Lakes Talk Abstract The Characeae, a family comprised of large, morphologically complex, freshwater