Annual Conservation Day - Seed Collection (MN)

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10/9/2024

More than a hundred scouts from the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River spent the better part of Saturday collecting seeds in the native prairie behind the New Richmond headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) St. Croix Wetland Management District as part of a project for Conservation Day. 

USFWS staff joined volunteers from Friends of the St. Croix Wetland Management District (WMD) and student volunteers from the University of Wisconsin River Falls (UWRF) in instructing participants on how to locate, identify and harvest seeds from lead plant and prairie bush clover. 

 

Greg Scheder, membership chair for Northern Star Council Scouting was responsible for organizing the seed harvesting opportunity. He particularly appreciates the educational opportunity it represents. 

“It’s always a fun event,” Scheder said. “When you have a higher volunteer to participant ratio it’s good from the educational aspect. The kids get a lot more information about what they’re doing than they would if it was a larger group. It’s also an opportunity for them to see something they’ve never seen before.”

More at source:

https://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/news/what-area-scouts-did-for-a-conservation-day-project/article_47e176ca-85f6-11ef-aaa1-c75d07e6e6c2.html