Updates and Articles

As session ends, new pathway opens for clean-water crops

May 20, 2024

We’ll be advocating for critical investments in clean-water crops such as Kernza, as well as more support for the local businesses nurturing their use. Read more

A farmer drives a combine harvester over a field of Kernza. Text over the image says "MNLEG 2024"

Lower-carbon transportation bill slowed by legislative headwinds

May 20, 2024

A Clean Transportation Standard might be one of FMR’s most ambitious — and important — legislative goals. Read more

A hand puts a charging plug into an electric vehicle. Text says "MN Leg 2024"

Where we work: Seidl's Lake Park

May 14, 2024

A former orchard, sheep and dairy farm, and swimming hole tucked into a corner of both South Saint Paul and Inver Grove Heights, this city park's wooded hillsides are now transforming into a pocket of much-needed habitat within the urban landscape. Read more

Seidl's Lake, blue surrounded by green forest

Big win: MN Legislature funds invasive carp deterrent

May 14, 2024

We're celebrating a major win in our efforts to stop invasive carp from spreading into Minnesota's waters this legislative session. Read more

A close-up of a taxidermied invasive carp, with the blurred Minnesota Capitol building in the background.

Spring intern creates strategic land protection database

May 13, 2024

Our land conservation spring intern Sam Vanspriell spent four months conducting complex analysis to help us identify land near the river that, if protected, could be key for habitat and water quality. Read more

Spring ephemerals: 9 Minnesota wildflowers you can find between snow-melt and leaf-out

May 8, 2024

A whole guild of native woodland plants bloom and fruit before trees turn green and fully shade the ground. Read more

From the Mekong to the Mississippi: Sovatha’s river story

May 2, 2024

"As a young refugee encountering the Mississippi for the first time, I would never have imagined in a million years that in the future I would come full circle, working to care for the river that welcomed me." Read more

How our ecologists piece together a site’s past and plan for its future

April 23, 2024

What can the outstretched limbs of a bur oak reveal about the land? Here's how our ecologists find signs underfoot and overhead to understand a place before beginning to restore its habitat. Read more

Where we work: Sheridan Memorial Park

April 15, 2024

Located along the east bank of the Mississippi River just north of the Broadway Avenue bridge, this site is home to a veterans memorial, an FMR-installed raingarden, and a multi-year community partnership with the Sheridan Neighborhood Organization. Read more