Updates and Articles

Welcome to our new Grassroots Organizing Coordinator (and farewell to Maddie!)
September 8, 2025
Meet Jenna, our new River Guardians advocacy program leader, and celebrate our outgoing coordinator's achievements. Read more
Jenna Hawkes by river
New video on mine’s risk to a clean Mississippi
September 5, 2025
Watch this moving video from the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe explaining the threat posed to their traditions and the water we all value by the proposed Tamarack Mine. Read more
Hand pointing over wetland
Is your SAF sustainable?
September 1, 2025
For any Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) to legitimately earn its moniker, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from flights cannot come at the expense of clean water and healthy habitat. Read more
An illustration of an plane flying over a river and camelina fields.
Photos: What our wildlife cameras showed this summer
August 26, 2025
Our wildlife camera monitoring program provides data that can help us improve habitat restoration. It also provides some very fun pictures. Read more
Deer peeking at wildlife camera
An update on federal funding cuts and the river
August 21, 2025
Some good news for our local national park unit, but MNRRA and federal agencies working for the river still face many challenges. Here's what we're seeing from our partners. Read more
MNRRA visitor center sign
Where we work: Bailey Point Nature Preserve
August 21, 2025
Tucked into a meander of the Elk River just before its confluence with the Mississippi River, Bailey Point Nature Preserve's floodplains, forests and prairies create a refuge for bald eagles, red foxes and songbirds. Read more
Bailey Point Nature Preserve flowers in prairie
Farewell to Kass, FMR's 2024-25 Climate Impact Corps member
August 18, 2025
Kass engaged students across the metro area through our youth programming, led interpretive walks at our volunteer restoration events and so much more. Read more
Kass at a river overlook
Thank you, summer 2025 interns
August 15, 2025
Over the summer, two interns with our Land Conservation program supported wildlife camera monitoring, volunteer pollinator monitoring, bumble bee research and more.  Read more
Lauren and Rashi in the field
Who owns the St. Anthony Falls cutoff wall? It's still being debated
August 13, 2025
The cutoff wall, a vital component of the infrastructure around St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, has drawn attention in recent years due to questions about its ownership and maintenance. A study is underway, but it won't resolve everything. Read more
Water flows over Owamniyomni, also known as St. Anthony Falls
Oxygen-starved 'dead zone' in Gulf nearly as big as Connecticut
August 8, 2025
Shrinking this recurring, humanmade disaster will require a fundamental shift in agriculture practices in the upper Midwest. Read more
A wide view of a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico, against a cloudy sky.

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Tend a prairie at Hastings River Flats Park [WAITLIST]
Tuesday, July 21, 2026 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Near the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers, Hastings
Webinar: Sulfide mining’s looming threat to Minnesota and the Mississippi River
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Keep 'em Clean: Stencil St. Paul storm drains with FMR
August 1 through October 15, 2026
Throughout St. Paul

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