In 2016, Mississippi Park Connection commissioned an artistic exhibition, River Relationships by Works Progress Studio, for the MNRRA visitor center.
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In 2016, Mississippi Park Connection commissioned an artistic exhibition, River Relationships by Works Progress Studio, for the MNRRA visitor center.
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In 1953, Reiko Umetani Weston moved from Japan to Minnesota with her husband, Norman Weston, and her parents. That move would eventually lead to the redevelopment of Minneapolis’s riverfront.
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Incidents of racism can go unnoticed in parks because they are farther from the eye of the media, but this community – you – can have an impact on making everyone feel at home in the outdoors.
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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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