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During the upcoming weeks of thawing and freezing snow and ice, you can help to prevent localized flooding in your neighborhood by clearing a pathway for water to reach storm drains and culverts.

It’s okay if you spent all year chopping away at the buckthorn in your backyard and still see an impenetrable thicket when you look out the kitchen window. I understand.

That day they collected 101,904 bags of leaves, which is the equivalent of more than 20,000 pounds of phosphorus.

The magic of the St. Croix Valley doesn’t happen by accident.

As it turns out, we can almost always predict the health of a lake or stream purely based on how much of the land draining to that lake or stream is covered in impervious surfaces.

To be a Minnesotan is to walk around without a jacket until it’s 30° outside, just to avoid admitting that it is no longer summer.

Local clean water projects help to improve regional watersheds, habitat corridors and economies, but they also provide direct benefits to landowners and communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Having a child has strengthened my resolve to protect our natural resources both locally and in faraway places so that Charlie can enjoy them now and in the future.