2025

Online via Zoom

If you like learning about nature while you’re out exploring, then Griffin B. has an opportunity for you! In this presentation, you’ll hear about the Minnesota Master Naturalist program, its training courses and volunteer service opportunities around the state, and how you can get involved with the program.

Presented by Griffin B. Griffin is an extension educator at the University of Minnesota. Based in Saint Cloud, MN, his job with the Minnesota Master Naturalist program takes him around the state to help people explore and learn about the natural world. 

Hybrid program
In person at the Aspen Room at Westwood Hills Nature Center, 8300 W Franklin Ave, St. Louis Park, MN 55426 and also being presented over Zoom

NOTE new location for in-person meetings!

Join Jerry and Stacey as they talk about their road trip from Minneapolis to Portland, Oregon and back. Sand dunes, mountains, snow, rain forests, (old) volcanoes. A Buddhist center. The 58 murals of the “Michelango of Montana.” National parks, national monuments, national forests. Lewis and Clark. American history of the 1800s. Dams (successful and unsuccessful). Elk, bison, pronghorn antelope, mountain goats, Sasquatch. Hear why you might want to think about driving instead of flying to your next destination!

Online via Zoom

Joan will discuss her two experiences with traveling abroad and volunteering for conservation projects.  Her first experience was in a Costa Rican National Park and focused on sea turtles nesting, jaguar camera trapping and forest surveys.  Her second experience was in Australia snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef conducting coral, animal and sea turtle surveys. 

Joan M. is a recently retired biology instructor who taught a variety of courses including Environmental Science and Field Biology.  Trained as an ornithologist, her interests have expanded to learning about all aspects of nature.