On May 10th, 2024, Mississippi Park Connection and National Park Service staff worked together to install 525 trees into the Science Museum gravel bed.
Read MoreAs we conclude our tree planting season, Marielle, the Forestry Program Coordinator for Mississippi Park Connections, reflects on the final tree planting event of the year.
Read MoreWe have spent a few years helping to reforest Riverfront Regional Park in Fridley. We love this park for it’s long shoreline on the river and really awesome boat launch.
Read MoreConservationists have made use of harsh, militaristic, and unflattering language to provoke people to take action. In the last few years, especially, it has become apparent that this comes with a cost and now a discussion of ethics is taking place.
Read MoreTogether we reached a major milestone in 2021: completing our Plant For The Future campaign to plant 15,000 trees and shrubs in the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area!
Read MoreLand managers up and down the Mississippi River corridor are being challenged by beaver destruction of restoration projects. We need to study their behavior to determine how extensive beaver harvest is on floodplain forest trees.
Read MoreMeet Becca and Rennie, two Community Forestry Corps members working for different organizations with a common goal of reforesting the Twin Cities.
Read MoreWhat do you imagine when you think of forests in the future? Scientists and land managers are working together to answer a question posed by climate change: Which trees should we plant today that will survive in the future?
Read MoreChelsey and Ed’s chronological photographs remind us that change is imminent—not just the existential transformations that climate change imposes, but the seasonal variations that, at least for the time being, remain a signature of Minnesota.
Read MoreMississippi Park Connection, in partnership with more than 30 land-managing agencies and a network of academic researchers from across the country, are creating a teaching forest at Crosby Farm Regional Park for researchers, land managers and the public to learn best practices for climate change adaptation.
Read MoreGravel enables the trees to develop roots that are three times heartier than they were in the spring. This drastically increases their chance of survival by reducing transplant shock at the time of planting and increasing their water and nutrient uptake.
Read MoreToday, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of their schools to strike against climate change. Around the world, there are higher highs and lower lows, bigger storms, and historic floods. Our small stretch of the Mississippi River isn’t immune to this worldwide crisis.
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