Youth Outdoors
Where are they now? Vincent Welder
Sixteen acres of rain gardens maintained, 784 miles of trails built and improved, 211,489 plants, trees and shrubs planted. These are just some of the… Read More
Lifetime impact
By: Rose Lundy I am evidence that early exposure to conservation work can impact a lifetime. When I was 16-years-old, I… Read More
Urban Rain Gardening
By: Rose Lundy I have never been much of a gardener. My mom would work tirelessly out in our tiny city… Read More
Youth complete spring term with service projects
To culminate their 11-week service term, participants in the Youth Outdoors program design and implement service projects in communities where they serve. Read More
Where are they now? Sean Wickhem
During his four years of service in the Corps, Sean Wickhem did everything from documenting scenic easement parcels by canoe to leading youth in community service, training people how to camp to installing solar panels. Read more. Read More
Finding the Switch
Being on a Youth Outdoors crew in South Minneapolis is like walking into a dark room and not knowing where the light switch is. You cautiously open the door, reach across all the obvious areas of the wall, and hope that the house was built after 1925. Then… finally as you are crouch behind a desk with your hand between stacks of books, you finally find the switch. And “aha!” you get it. Something amazing happens. Or literally, the light comes on. Read More