Content Type: Blog Post

For nearly 10 years, a group of Minneapolis teenagers have patrolled the watershed, working in Minneapolis parks to remove invasive plants, install native species, maintain rain gardens and engage in […]

At the MWMO, all of our projects are designed to protect water quality and habitat, but some have the added benefit of looking amazing. Such is the case with the […]

One of my personal favorite ways to explore a city is via Google Street View, the Google Maps extension that allows you to immerse yourself in 360-degree panoramic views of a […]

By Marcy Bean For this month’s featured plant, I’d like to showcase Joe Pye Weed — one of my summer favorites. Before it blooms, the foliage has nice color and […]

A typical day of a Mississippi River Green Team member consists of working in locations full of fearsome predators: dragonflies! Dragonflies are insects belonging to the order Odonata, meaning “toothed […]

Of all the pollutants that we find in our watershed, few are likely to provoke as much visceral disgust as E. coli bacteria. It’s easy to understand why: E. coli […]

’Tis the season for building rain gardens — those bowl-shaped landscape features filled with native plants that help stormwater runoff soak into the ground. Rain gardens are an increasingly popular […]

By Marcy Bean You’ve probably heard the buzz about planting plants that are good for pollinators. Milkweed plants are important because they provide nectar and food for larva of a […]

Managing stormwater runoff used to be a rather unimaginative affair. You dug a hole in the ground, graded the land around it and — presto! — you had a stormwater […]