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Urban Birding
The Eastern Bluebird, a species identifiable by its striking blue and orange color-scheme, was on the edge of extinction in the 1960s. Multiple environmental hazards, including widespread pesticide spraying, human destruction of nesting habitat and predatory invasive birds contributed to their decrease in numbers. Read More
Conserving Through Generations: A letter to my grandfather
I wish I could tell you how sorry I am that I didn’t seem more interested in your past when you were alive. History, to a teenager, means old dead people and large text books. I was too absorbed with the technology of youth to care about my past. I’m lucky though that you left me such an easy trail to follow. You must have known that someday I would care. Someday I would want to know where I came from and how my family became so adventuresome. Read More
Interior Secretary highlights importance of young people in conservation
Photo: Conservation Corps staff with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. From left,… Read More
Carlton SWCD names Corps ‘Conservation Partner of the Year’
Photo: Conservation Corps crew members installed livestock access control fence to protect Elim Creek in Carlton County. Read More
Crew repurposes cedar trees to restore trout habitat
Photo: Corps members Bethany Dahl, Drew Wilwert, Jennie LaRoche, Travis Wilder and Joe McCarthy with Rich Stemper of the Root River… Read More
BAM’s the bomb at volunteer event
University of Minnesota students made seed bombs at a BAM meeting. On October 30, Conservation Corps… Read More