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Conservation Updates

Conservation youth have been learning bird calls, and they even went on a bird walk with new binoculars and bird books we received this summer to see if they could try out some of their new skills! Interns have been very interested in bird watching and are excited to learn more. With the summer cooling off some plants have gone to seed which means the season’s seed collecting has started.

Seeds are collected from tons of native plants all over the different sites where the crew works. The interns learn about different methods for collecting seeds from plants as the variety of species offer unique seeds. Once the seeds are collected, the interns then store them and prepare the seeds to be planted in the spring. This past summer, conservation grew the seeds starts inside the grow-it center and sold them at the Mill City Farmers Market.

Two groups of volunteers also came out and worked with our crews, helping to plant and mulch an area at the beginning of Willowbrook and pull more Buckthorn.