Environmentally Responsible Forestry The Hiawatha Sustainable Woods Cooperative (HSWC) is a timber management, processing, and marketing cooperative of local forest owners. Its purpose is to maximize the long-term aesthetic, ecological, economic, and recreational benefits from area forest resources. The Cooperative stresses environmentally responsible forestry which includes: * education; * professionally-trained foresters and loggers; * locally […]
Dodge Nature Center
Nature in the City Dodge Nature Center is a non-profit organization that operates a 320-acre nature preserve and model farm, located in West St. Paul just off State Highway 110. Establish in 1967 by Olivia Dodge, DNC provides outdoor education and environmental experiences to thousands of people each year. “Our biggest asset is that we […]
Dave Jacobson
Preserving and Educating Love of the land, wildlife and a vision of what was there before his grandparents homesteaded his 160-acre family farm motivated David Jacobson of Sauk Centre, Minnesota to return the land to its natural state of wetlands, woodlands, and prairie. When asked why he would take active farmland out of production, Jacobson […]
Cedar Creek Natural History Area
Article from the Star Tribune – Published July 27, 2002 by Tom Meersman A Natural Choice Chris Clark, a University of Minnesota researcher working with a dozen undergraduates in the fields recently, was swatting deerflies as he clipped and removed long, narrow strips of foliage from small plots in a grasslands experiment. The students, some […]