Blog Posts 2020

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2021

August 17, 2021. Audio Postcard, Hunting for Wildflowers that Thrive in the Shade

July 20, 2021, Audio Postcard, Scents of Summer on the Prairie

June 11, 2021, Audio Postcard, Searching for Orchids at Lake Bemidji State Park

May 5, 2021, Audio Postcard with MPR, Early Spring Violets in Bloom

April 9, 2021, Audio Postcard with MPR, Too Many Signs of Spring to Count

January 5, 2021, Audio Postcard with MPR, Snowy Signs of Plant Life

2020

September 2, 2020, Audio Postcard with MPR, A Spot of Blue on the Prairie

August 14, 2020 Audio Postcard with MPR In Search of a Rare Primrose at Helen Allison Savanna SNA

July 13, 2020 Audio Postcard with MPR On the Hunt for Wildflowers at Long Lake Conservation Center

May 20, 2020 Audio Postcard with MPR Hunting for Wild Orchids in the Metro Area

May 12, 2020, Audio Postcard with MPR
Jeweled Shooting Star at Zumbro Falls Woods SNA

April 27, 2020, Audio Postcard with MPR
Wildflowers from the Cannon River Trout Lily Scientific and Natural Area

April 3, 2020, Audio Postcard with MPR
Searching for Early Spring Wildflowers

Drawn to Write on PBS, Phyllis Root and Betsy Bowen talk about The Lost Forest, Phyllis’s most recent children’s book

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Learn more about Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers by watching these presentations:

Conservation of Rare Plants of the Anoka Sand Plain of East Central Minnesota by Jason Husveth, Principal Ecologist, Critical Connections Ecological Services, Inc.

Minnesota’s Native Orchids by David Remucal, Curator of Endangered Plants and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

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