News Topic: Conservation Heroes

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08/27/2010 - The civic engagement put forth by Rep. Julie Bunn and Senator Kathy Saltzman in their persistent and dedicated flight for the health of their community exemplifies what Clara Ueland envisioned when helping establish the "League" nearly 90 years ago by encouraging women to engage in their newly won civic responsibilities. Those of us in the conservation community are indebted to these two conservation champions for their tireless work to protect our natural resources for our children and our grandchildren.  They are without a doubt present day conservation champions; Clara Ueland, a leading Minnesota advocate for the rights of women, would have been proud. 

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08/16/2010 - One of Minnesota's finest environmental teachers, Cal Fremling, an emeritus professor of biology at Winona State University, unfortunately passed away last week.  He spent his lifetime learning and teaching about the Mississippi River, and was called one of the leading experts in the world on large river systems.

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08/12/2010 - In discussing some of our great conservation champions of today, it would be good to recognize people who have used can-do common sense and diligence.  Two of those diligent behind-the-scenes workers of recent months have been the director of the Legislative-Citizens Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR), Susan Thornton, and the executive director of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council (LSOHC), Bill Becker.

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07/23/2010 - Beth Waterhouse is executive director of the Oberholtzer Foundation. A writer, editor, and teacher whose mission is to bring wholeheartedness and the power of story and poetry into environmental work, Beth taught a course in Environmental Ethics at the University of Minnesota until 2007. With her husband, Don Maronde, she lives, writes, and tries to garden in Excelsior, Minnesota.

Picture the canoe, sliding silently into the marsh and moving toward a yearling bull moose feeding downwind.  The green canoe stops, starts, stops again.  We as distant observers of the whole river wetland now notice that when the moose raises his head, the canoe stops.  When the moose lowers his head into the marsh to pull up more June grasses, the canoe silently slips ahead ten or twenty feet.  A small man kneels in the bow of the canoe-- at last a click, two, three clicks of a 3A Graphlex camera.  Not a word is spoken between the two men in the canoe…

Ernest Oberholtzer, adopted Minnesotan, sets the tone for such an episode in his article, “Photographing Wild Moose” written for the August 1915 issue of American Photography. 

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07/03/2010 - Minnesota's first state park and still one of its jewels was established in 1891 by order of the state legislature and action by the U.S. Congress. That happened in no small part due to the tireless citizen lobbying by Jacob V. Brower.

Minnesota was recently blessed to have a new set of visionary leaders who recognized the threat of a coming change in land ownership. It was through their leadership that the first major project under the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment Funding will be the forest legacy easement preserving nearly 190,000 acres of forest land near Grand Rapids along the Mississippi River at the cost of only $36 million to taxpayers -- that's less than $200 an acre.


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