Updates and Articles

September 14, 2022

Take our 5-minute survey to help shape FMR's advocacy engagement in the coming year and let us know how you want to plug in. Read more

Video: How we protect land — The story of Pine Bend Bluffs Natural Area

September 14, 2022

Watch our new video to experience the stunning landscape of Pine Bend Bluffs Natural Area habitat corridor from a bird's-eye view and hear the story of its protection. Read more

"Is it good or bad?" Rethinking language around invasive species

September 14, 2022

A deep dive into the term "invasive species" — species that spread rapidly, or species out of place — plus how we can revise the value judgments we place on them. Read more

Meet our Twin Cities locks and dams

September 14, 2022

See a map of our three Twin Cities locks and dams, a timeline of when and why they were built, and find out why we may not need them anymore. Read more

Congrats to our 2022 ESI summer intensive fellows!

September 11, 2022

We doubled the size of our summer intensive program for high school-aged youth this year. Find out what our fellows explored and learned, read two reflections on the program and see their final projects. Read more

Why I became a Mississippi River Legacy Society member

September 8, 2022

Minnesota's 3 little lizards

September 8, 2022

There are about 150 native and non-native lizard species in North America. Only these three manage to survive the harsh Minnesota climate. Read more

A racerunner lizard at the Flint Hills Resources site.

ESI guest post: PFAS in Minnesota and impacts on east metro drinking water

August 31, 2022

This is a guest post from 2022 Environmental Stewardship Institute (ESI) fellow Alecia Jendro who researched the history of 3M's PFAS disposal in the East Metro, the resulting health and environmental impacts, and what's being done about it now. Read more