“I love learning about the stories rivers carry and the role they play in people’s connections to place.”
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Meet Kaisy Jo Nuñez, the new Community Forestry Corps member! This new program engages a team of AmeriCorps members in the preservation and protection of Minnesota’s forests.
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Locally, the Latino/a community culturally and economically developed the West Side Flats neighborhood along the Mississippi River. The community continues to thrive today in the surrounding area centered on District del Sol in Saint Paul.
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Together we reached a major milestone in 2021: completing our Plant For The Future campaign to plant 15,000 trees and shrubs in the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area!
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The long-awaited Upper Post Flats project will repurpose the 26 remaining historic buildings at the Upper Post into 206 housing units, while revitalizing and beautifying the Upper Post’s overgrown landscape.
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Just steps from skyscrapers, you can walk out onto the lock and catch a glimpse of many flighted, finned and web-footed river residents. Grab your binoculars and keep a look out for these wildlife.
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Learn how the geology and history of St. Anthony Falls shaped its appearance today.
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The Great River Road, Minnesota’s longest National Scenic Byway, meanders the Mississippi River to 12 state parks and the only national park dedicated to the Mississippi River.
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Meet Maricio, the new Saint Paul Right Track intern for Mississippi Park Connection.
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Lyndon Torstenson’s passion for river education and his dedication to the environment set a gold standard for inspiring future generations within the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.
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One of the brightest birds found in the park’s corridor is the prothonotary warbler. To truly understand “gold” as a color is to see the prothonotary warbler as it flits through the understory of floodplain forest on sky blue wings.
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Hibernating bat colonies on the east coast have decreased 80-97% as a result of white-nose syndrome (WNS) and researchers are predicting similar population declines in the Midwest region as WNS spreads.
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