Learn all about traditional maple syruping, join the all-day jam session, and take a phenology hike! Join us at the Forest History Center to learn how trees are tapped, what maple sap tastes like, and how to boil the sap to turn it into syrup. While the boil is happening, partake of music around the […]
Learn wolf ecology, wolf behavior, why wolves howl, how the wolf pack works as a group, and how the pack uses its territory. Learn how wolves hunt, and how their prey makes their escape. There will also be a discussion about how humans have viewed the wolf throughout history. This program includes a large wolf […]
The Forest History Center will host a Community Science Day in partnership with the Bell Museum of Natural History. Come participate in several hands-on science activities both inside and out with staff from the Bell Museum.
12-1pm, 1:30-2:30pm, 3-4pm, 5-6pm Come and enjoy the season with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour riding through the woods with friends and family enjoying all that winter has to offer! After the ride enjoy a fire and some cocoa.
Come out and visit the logging camp and enjoy some music, stories, horse-drawn sleigh rides, hot chocolate, bonfires and more.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
For millennia, humans have marveled at the night sky: the wonder of the aurora borealis, the glory of the Milky Way, and the peace that comes with stargazing. In this presentation, Travis Novitsky will share Indigenous peoples’ understanding of, and relationship to the night sky. He will discuss his craft and process as a photographer, […]
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
Join Minnesota storyteller Terry O’Brien for tales drawn from traditional northern folklife and lore, plus actual, historical winter adventures of trappers, travelers, and winterers in the far north. There is deep, penetrating cold in these stories and peril, yet encoded within them are survival strategies for coping with cold, blizzards, and deprivation. Be transported to […]
Come out to experience winter with a horse-drawn ride around the Forest History Center. Spend an hour with friends and family taking in all that winter has to offer! After the ride, warm up with a fire and some cocoa.
When the last glaciers turned Minnesota into a land of 10,000 lakes, they left behind soil that captured seeds blowing in the winds. Those seeds included what we today call native flowering forbs. Native plants co-exist with the pollinators they support. But they also ensure that we humans enjoy a varied food supply that would […]
In late 2021, a wildfire burned more than 300 acres of island wilderness on Isle Royale National Park. Over the course of two summers, with support of the National Park Service, Matt Kania documented the visual scars of the wildfire in plein air oil paintings and conté crayon drawings. More than 30 original works capture […]
