Welcome to Camp Vermilion | Photo by Camp Vermilion, part of Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry. You’re protecting the places where nature shapes lives. For thousands of Minnesotans, a love of nature begins at a nature center or summer camp like Camp Vermilion and Inspiration Point. It’s where the quiet of the forest, the pull of a [...]
A Broad-winged hawk flying over Hawk Ridge. Photo courtesy of Hawk Ridge by Sean McLaughlin, Lead Fall Bird Migration Counter. Minnesota Land Trust supporters helped safeguard 1,100 acres where birds, wildlife, and people thrive. Each fall, the sky above Duluth’s Hawk Ridge comes alive. Hawks, eagles, and falcons ride the thermals over Lake Superior. Songbirds [...]
Mantrap Lake in Hubbard County, MN The Minnesota Land Trust and Northern Waters Land Trust partnered to protect a portion of the land surrounding the historic 3M retreat center on Big Mantrap Lake in Hubbard County. This conservation achievement ensures that approximately 449 acres of ecologically significant land and over six miles of shoreline will [...]
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The property in the Minnesota Land Trust’s Rum and St. Croix River Conservation Priority area includes the forested northern shore of Rock Lake and is situated between a Walmart Supercenter, golf course, and two residential developments near the growing community of Pine City, Minnesota. The most obvious and, likely lucrative, opportunity for retired farmer [...]
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The Barrett family, headed by landowners Dale and Betty Barrett, have demonstrated incredible persistence in their steady pursuit to permanently protect Tennyson Lake in Isanti County, Minnesota, in the Minnesota Land Trust’s Twin Cities Metro conservation priority region. To date, they’ve permanently protected 322 acres of land or water and almost two miles of shoreline [...]
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