weepers to maintain a tidy appearance, but these machines can also be an important and cost-effective tool for reducing stormwater pollution.
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Angie Hong is the coordinator for Minnesota's East Metro Water Resource Education Program, a local government partnership. In her free time, she enjoys singing, competing in triathlons, and exploring the prairies, woods and waterways of the St. Croix Valley.
On the forest and the trees
Take a break from raking leaves and get involved in efforts to create more resilient woodlands this fall.
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New project aims to take Lily Lake off the impaired water’s list
A new regional infiltration basin will collect and filter stormwater from a large area of land that includes commercial and residential property, delivering it to Lily Lake cleaner and with less phosphorus.
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Wildlife-friendly fall gardens
In the coming weeks, there are several steps you can take to prep your yard and gardens for winter and continue to support pollinators, birds and other wildlife.
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A River Unites
Though rivers have long been used as borders to divide one group of people from another, it also strikes me that they have the power to bring us together as well.
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Protecting Mill Stream and the St. Croix River
(IBI) scores that function much like grades on a report card. According to Mike Isensee, Administrator for the Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix Watershed District, Mill Stream will likely get an IBI score of “B” in 2022.
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Where the land is neither wet nor dry
Dave Medvecky’s project in Isanti County will restore approximately 13 acres of wetlands that have been lost to farming for nearly a century.
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Hard Fescue and SMART Controllers Allow for Green Grass with Less Water
At the end of a long, hot summer with no irrigation or rain, the plot with 100% hard fescue grass was still lush and green, while the one with Kentucky bluegrass was almost entirely dead.
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Touring Wakáŋ Tipi at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary – Same View, New Perspective
“We’ve never lost our connection to this space but it’s important to bring native people back here and have them making decisions on how the land in managed,” says Keeli Siyaka, Environmental Justice Educator at the Lower Phalen Creek Project.
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Tree care and woodland management
If you are working to remove large areas of buckthorn, MyMinnesotaWoods staff advise that late summer and fall are the best times to cut and treat buckthorn stumps with herbicide in order to prevent regrowth.
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