Minnesota Wild Waters Broadband • Entered by Jan Bourdon on July 29, 2022
Dunrovin Year of the River Stewardship Project
July 15, 2022 – July 17, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 20 |
| Post Admin hours | 6.25 |
| Activity Hours | 10.75 |
| Participants | 17 |
| Total Hours | 209 |
Key Issue: Water-related Conservation
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Dunrovin Retreat Center, Arcola Society Volunteers, Wild Rivers Conservancy for the St. Croix
Landscape/area: St. Croix Wetland Management District
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Invasives removed (40 Other)
Outcome 2: Plants planted (25 plants)
Outcome 3: Stream/river sampled (17 people)[/if 1231]
Short Description of Activity
This was a stewardship project to help a Scenic St. Croix former property now under the Arcola non-profit society to maintain its grounds and buildings right on the Historic St. Croix River. 17 Wild Waters Broadband members worked for 4 hours to pull invasive species, plant new plants, clean the mansion kitchen and clear trails. We also kayaked and canoed the beautiful St. Croix River near Marine on the St.Croix. A St Croix River historian led our canoe trip and educated us on the importance of this river and its lumber history. We learned that the river has over a thousand tributaries important to Minnesota and Wisconsin and the work our main speaker from the Wild Rivers Conservancy provided education on efforts to keep the river clean and how we can volunteer in the future. This is an extremely wonderful partnership and fits our mission.
Reflection/Evaluation
Our goals were definitely met: !. Engaging 17 members in a stewardship project, 2. Educating 17 members on St. Croix National Wild river efforts 3. Engaging, educating and Advocacy activities during the weekend. Members of the leadership team all agree it was a huge success!!!! We also encouraged new members to continue and encouraged guests to become members. We educated the staff of Dunrovin about who we are and our mission. For fun, we had a “river rock” painting session that was a huge success. We had a closing planning meeting for our annual BWCAW trip in September which filled immediately with 15 people.
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Photo Captions
Pleas note that you can access all of our photos on Evite for our Dunrovin Weekend. Thank you