We 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.

Conservationists 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.

Together 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!

Land 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.

Meet Becca and Rennie, two Community Forestry Corps members working for different organizations with a common goal of reforesting the Twin Cities.

What 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?

Chelsey 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.

Mississippi 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.

Gravel 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.

Today, 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. 

As part of our Plant For the Future initiative, we’ve been partnering with the City of Saint Paul to establish an experimental plot where we can trial and observe new tree species native to ranges outside Minnesota’s borders.