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Willmar City Council to meet Monday WILLMAR — The Willmar City Council will receive a presentation on parliamentary procedures from Scott Thaden during a work session at 6 p.m. Monday...

news / local Fri, Mar 15, 2013 - 10:32pm

Brad Cobb, right, of the Green Corridor Initiative, and Rebecca Wodder lead the way Thursday on the pedestrian bridge in Granite Falls. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Senior adviser to Secretary of Interior tours Minnesota River

GRANITE FALLS -- More than two decades of work to clean up the Minnesota River has brought together a diverse partnership of stakeholders in the state's namesake watershed, and produced...

news / region Fri, Nov 16, 2012 - 12:00am

Watershed district hosting lunch speaker Thursday in Belgrade, Minn.

BROOTEN -- The North Fork Crow River Watershed District will host an agricultural presentation "The View from the Tractor Seat" at 11 a.m. Thursday at the VFW in Belgrade. David...

news / region Wed, Jul 11, 2012 - 1:22pm

Middle Fork watershed to host rain garden workshop

SPICER -- The Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District (MFCRWD) will be hosting a rain garden workshop from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 17 at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning...

outdoors Sat, Oct 29, 2011 - 12:00am

The Olson Lake brood marsh and public hunting area near Raymond is making a comeback. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Olson Lake making a comeback in west central Minn.

RAYMOND -- Olson Lake is a 124-acre, shallow water lake that was once a waterfowl hunter's Mecca and could be soon again. It's part of a 450-acre Waterfowl Production Area,...

outdoors / region Sat, May 14, 2011 - 8:00am

Shingo Yamane, right, a foreign exchange student from Japan studying in Clara City, and Glen Jacobsen, rural Bird Island, give Jacobsen's new Souris Canoe its maiden run April 23 on the Chippewa River. The river's bluffs offer a look back at more than 100,000 years of geological and glacial history in the area. (Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny)

Chippewa River run: Trip offers modern perspective

The Chippewa River was back within its banks but keeping a sprinter's pace when the nine of us slipped two canoes and five kayaks into its current at Lentz's Landing...

outdoors / region Sat, Apr 30, 2011 - 8:01am

Paul Wymar, scientist with the Chippewa River Watershed Project, says the watershed project needs to be a private, for-profit model. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Newest Chippewa River project aims to make cleanup a profitable measure

BENSON --If 10 percent of the lands now used to produce annual crops like corn and soybeans were instead converted to pasture or perennial cover like alfalfa, the Chippewa River...

news / region Mon, Oct 04, 2010 - 12:00am

Minnesota River board supports market incentives for conservation

MONTEVIDEO -- Minnesota is looking at giving market-based economics a role in cleaning up the state's waters. The Minnesota River Board hopes to help shape the rules for it. Members...

news / region Tue, Sep 21, 2010 - 12:00am

Hawk Creek seeking volunteers to monitor water quality

OLIVIA -- The Hawk Creek Watershed Project is looking for volunteers to help monitor water quality in the Willmar area. Volunteers are needed to take Secchi disk readings on lakes...

news / local Sat, May 29, 2010 - 12:00am

Mussels among topics for CRWP annual meeting

STARBUCK -- The Chippewa River Watershed Project is hosting its annual meeting at the Starbuck Community Center on Thursday, March 25. The free event begins at 5 p.m. followed by...

outdoors / region Sat, Mar 20, 2010 - 12:00am

Stacy Salvevold slipped out of her back door and the comfort of her home on a sub-zero day to capture this image of a frozen sunrise over Lake Minnewaska. It is appropriately featured as the January 2010 image. Submitted photos

Amateur photographers tell Chippewa River watershed's story

MONTEVIDEO -- Stacy Salvevold needed only to slip out her back door and the warmth of her home on a January morning to capture the sparkle of a hoar-frosted landscape...

outdoors Sat, Dec 26, 2009 - 12:00am

Integrated study of Minn. River being launched

ST. PAUL -- There has been no shortage of desire when it comes to cleaning up the Minnesota River, but there has also been plenty of disagreement over how best...

news / region Sat, Nov 14, 2009 - 12:00am

Jeanette Jacobson, of Roseland, keeps her balance on a steep slope on the west shore of Green Lake Wednesday in Spicer while helping to plant 4,000 native Minnesota flowers and grasses in a shoreline restoration project. By planting seeds and established plants, it's hoped that the mix will hold the soil in place, absorb rainwater and provide an attractive natural shoreline. Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange

Project will restore a piece of Green Lake shoreline and serve as education site for homeowners

The slope on the west shore of Green Lake is so steep it almost looked like Jeanette Jacobson was gripping the sides of a vertical wall on Wednesday as she...

news / local / outdoors Fri, Aug 28, 2009 - 12:00am

Cory Netland sends a secchi disk into the waters of Long Lake to measure water clarity. The Hawk Creek Watershed Project is collecting water samples from a number of Willmar area lakes. The data will be analyzed and used to determine how best to improve the lakes. Submitted photo

Assessments of Willmar area lakes to be done this year

WILLMAR -- Not since Willmar Mayor Ole Reynolds and Kandiyohi County board chair Virgil Olson stood before the cameras and supposedly sipped water from a dipper pulled from Foot Lake...

outdoors Sat, Aug 22, 2009 - 12:00am

Vanessa Glieden Henjum, left, with the Middle Fork Crow Watershed District watches as New London Mayor Bill Gossman, center, and Chuck Joswiak with Windscapes of Inver Grove Heights fill a meshed tube with sand and gravel in front of the main viewing area in Neer Park. Meshed tubes of sand and gravel will stabilize the badly eroded bank and are designed so that natural vegetation can sprout in them. (Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny)

Aiming for a natural solution

NEW LONDON -- Two of New London's biggest attractions have a conflict. The Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District believes it has the natural solution. It began restoring the shoreline...

news / local / region Mon, Jun 29, 2009 - 12:00am

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