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March 9, 2026
This 7,000-acre network of winding backwaters and lush green islands where the Vermillion meets the Mississippi is one of the largest expanses of floodplain native plant communities in southeast Minnesota. Read more
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March 9, 2026
The cold water trout stream and wide floodplain wetlands at the 450-acre Vermillion River Aquatic Management Area (AMA) in Dakota County offer opportunities for angling, hunting, trapping and wildlife observation. Read more
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February 16, 2026
Located on the Mississippi River Greenway trail, just above the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers, Hastings River Flats is a 28-acre ecological hotspot. Here, we've restored a former oil tank storage site to a thriving wet prairie. Read more
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February 12, 2026
Nestled between Warner Road and the Mississippi River just south of downtown St. Paul, 70-acre Willow Brook is home to the DNR's Central Region Headquarters and Minnesota’s first state-run fish hatchery. Read more
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January 12, 2026
Our Ecological Data Analysis Intern helped FMR analyze data from three different monitoring and research projects. Read more
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November 10, 2025
Four miles of trails wind through this pair of Inver Grove Heights parks that feature cropland turned prairie, acres of restored savanna, towering oak, maple and basswood trees and a pond that draws wildlife to its waters. Read more
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October 23, 2025
Part of a former farmstead, this Otsego preserve lies along 2.5 miles of the Crow River and showcases massive cottonwood and oak trees, wide sandy floodplains, and grasslands that we're working to restore. Read more
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Upcoming Events
Saturday, October 24, 2026 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
3M's oak woodlands, Cottage Grove
Now through October 31, 2026
Throughout St. Paul
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