Friends Groups
Oak savanna restoration
Frontenac State Park Association planted trees and native prairie forbs to help restore oak savanna.
Installing tree cages around young oaks
Friends of Wild River State Park installed tree cages around young, naturally growing oak trees to protect them from deer browse.
Restoring wood edge habitat
Friends of Nerstrand Big Woods State Park installed 0.5 acres of native plants and trees along a wooded edge.
Replacing vulnerable ash trees
Friends of Maplewood planted and protected 15 large sugar maple trees to replace ash trees that were succumbing to emerald ash borer.
Installing tree cages around young pines
Friends of Itasca State Park installed 460 cages to protect young, naturally growing pine trees from deer browse.
Friends of Zippel Bay State Park
Meet Friends of Zippel Bay State Park
Meet the Minnesota Trail Riders Association
Keeping Our River Clean – Annual St. Croix River Cleanup
Music Fills the Air at Maplewood State Park
Parks & Trails Council conveys 154-acre property to Sibley State Park
DNR and city seek public input on Gitchi-Gami trail development
Volunteers install 400 tree cages at Itasca State Park
Friends respond to emerald ash borer by planting maples at Maplewood State Park
BSA Scouts Join Friends of Wild River to Protect Young Oak Trees
On National Get Outdoors Day, youth with a troop of Boy Scouts of America put on their sunscreen and bug spray and “got outdoors” at Wild River State Park. They joined the Friends of Wild River and a DNR naturalist to tackle a conservation project …
