Observe, count, and report the birds in your backyard for this national study. Here’s the website, where you’ll find a checklist of common birds in your area and a submission link to report the birds you observe over the weekend: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/Continue Reading

Wolf Ridge, the Protect Our Winters Foundation and Save the Poles have combined efforts to create this curriculum that enables a teacher to provide students with an awareness and knowledge of Climate Change, a subject that will be paramount in the lives of today’s 11 and 12 year olds. FullContinue Reading

In 2007 the Minnesota Legislature (Minnesota Statute 144.998) directed the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to conduct four biomonitoring pilot projects: South Minneapolis Children’s Arsenic Study East Metro PFC Biomonitoring Pilot Project (also see: East Metro PFC Biomonitoring Follow-up Project) Riverside Prenatal Biomonitoring Pilot Project Lake Superior Mercury Project SeeContinue Reading

Minnesota officials on Jan. 26 outlined plans to permit a hunting season for the gray wolf in 2012 following its removal from federal endangered species protections, prompting opponents of the plan to consider a court challenge. Read story HERE The Humane Society opposed the latest de-listing, opposes the hunting seasonContinue Reading

New state program for farmers designed to increase the voluntary adoption of conservation practices that protect local rivers, streams and other waters by reducing fertilizer run-off and soil erosion is being heralded as “historic” but could create nothing more than immunity or a loophole (and big cash: technical assistance andContinue Reading