Stewardship

New podcast features FMR ecologist and invasive earthworms

by Alex Roth

June 7, 2019

Three Rivers Park District's new podcast, The Wandering Naturalist, covers fun Minnesota ecology topics from tracking owls to maple syruping. In this episode, FMR ecologist Alex Roth joined the conversation about the effects of invasive buckthorn and earthworms on Minnesota's wildflowers. >>

Stormwater mural celebrates water at Lake Phalen

by Kate Clayton

June 5, 2019

On the bridge near the pavilion at Lake Phalen, if you look down, you’ll see a new mural. On June 1 at WaterFest, lead artist Liv Novotny and assistant artist Violeta Rotstein led volunteers to paint this beautiful reminder that all roads lead to our waters. >>

Artists work on the 2019 stormwater mural at Lake Phalen

Tend the pollinator gardens at Camel's Hump Park

May 22, 2019

Volunteers planting at Camel's Hump Park in 2021

Tend the native prairie bluff at Indian Mounds Park [FULL]

May 3, 2019

A young volunteer on the bluff at Indian Mounds Park

Thank you volunteers! Annual River Gorge Earth Day cleanup 2019

April 25, 2019

April 10, 2019

Volunteers plant the demonstration prairie on Nicollet Island

Riverfront regional park plan roundup

by Colleen O'Connor Toberman

April 8, 2019

FMR has been participating in the master planning processes for Above the Falls, Mississippi Gorge and Hidden Falls Crosby Farm regional parks in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Here's a roundup of the draft plans, FMR's comments on these plans and opportunities for future public participation. >>