This new online program for fourth grade teachers and students helps kids understand how organisms live within an ecosystem, through exciting videos and fun learning modules about floodplains, mussels, pike and the Mississippi River! The course explores different ways to look at the river to determine its vitality.
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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.
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Big River Journey Online is the next best thing to a riverboat field trip on the Mississippi River itself!
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Mississippi Park Connection serves as the caring neighbor and the economic engine behind water quality improvement, wildlife habitat improvement, and youth education.
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In the spring and summer you can find a pop of color from a variety of blooming wildflowers if only you take a moment to look closely.
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Peggy came to the Mississippi River through education and storytelling in media, which encouraged her deep understanding of relationships to the river at a cellular level.
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Citizen science projects are data collection initiatives that scientists can reference to inform their work. Use one of these easy apps on your next walk to volunteer by contributing to park data.
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We need your help telling your legislators that you support this project. Contact your state Senator in support of the River Learning Center with this email.
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Continue engaging with your local parks and connecting to the Mississippi River by following these safe outdoor social distancing practices in Minnesota.
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The location and geography of Crosby Farm Regional Park makes a walk through it’s floodplain forests, marshy wetlands and tranquil lakes feel like stepping into a magical wonderland.
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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.
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