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Valley View Park

Valley View Park 5425 North Osgood Avenue, Oak Park Heights, MN, United States

Join Jyneen Thatcher and other MNNPS members in exploring a small dry prairie remnant in a city park in Oak Park Heights. The park has undergone restoration efforts by the environmental studies classes at Stillwater High School, including buckthorn removal and prairie reconstruction, but the only management in this remnant has been prescribed burns. We will add to the species list which currently includes plants such as prairie phlox, prairie violet, purple-lipped twayblade, lupine, and short prairie grasses.

Flora of the Central Sand Plain of Wisconsin Black River State Forest

Black River State Forest Black River Falls, WI, United States

FIELD TRIP IS FULL. An Overnight Trip to Multiple Sites in Black River State Forest. Meet in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, travel time of approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes from St. Paul, MN. Spend Saturday afternoon exploring various habitats. Stay overnight either at the Pigeon Creek Campground within the state forest, or at motels in Black River Falls. Spend the next morning exploring additional habitats and then travel back that afternoon.

Springbrook Nature Center – Dragonflies 101

Springbrook Nature Center 100 85th Ave., N.W., Fridley, MN, United States

Digital dragonflies in an analog world? Join us for a different kind of field trip with a focus on dragonflies. We will spend about a half hour in the classroom reviewing dragonflies and then spend about an hour out in the wetland looking for dragonflies, taking their photos when we can get them to pose and netting those that do not want to pose.

Crow-Hassan Park Reserve Prairie

Crow-Hassan Park Reserve 12595 Park Drive, Hanover, MN, United States

Come join other MNNPS members for a Saturday morning hike into the prairie communities of Crow-Hassan Park Preserve. Participants will be led by John Moriarty through the rolling hills, woods, lakes, wetlands and prairie of this 2,800 acre metro park reserve to view the native vegetation and wildlife that call this fantastic place home.

Valley View Park

Valley View Park 5425 North Osgood Avenue, Oak Park Heights, MN, United States

An Early Fall Sunday Morning Hike. Join Jyneen Thatcher and other MNNPS members in exploring a small dry prairie remnant in a city park in Oak Park Heights. The park has undergone restoration efforts by the environmental studies classes at Stillwater High School, including buckthorn removal and prairie reconstruction, but the only management in this remnant has been prescribed burns. We will add to the species list which currently includes fall species that include upright gentian, multiple species of Liatris, and rattlesnake master.

Sedges and Rushes of Minnesota

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

Presenter:  Welby Smith, MnDNR Botanist. Place of the month: Uncas Dunes SNA; by Rick Haug, Photographer

Climate Change Adaptation in Parks of the Great Lakes Region

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

Presenter: Dr. Lee Frelich, Director, The University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology; Fellow, Institute on the Environment. Plant of the Month: Balsam poplar - Populus balsamifera by Lee Frelich