Keep yourself busy this winter by taking part in our weekly nature activity challenge. This week find a citizen science project that you might like to join.
Natural Resources News
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Voluntary forest carbon markets are a growing opportunity. Landowners are paid for the carbon storage and sequestration that their trees provide.
Professional development webinars for ecological restoration practitioners and project managers.
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Upcoming courses and events presented and hosted by Extension Natural Resources educators
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Keep yourself busy this winter by taking part in our weekly nature activity challenge. This week see if you can find an animal wearing winter camouflage.
![A pile of deer scat](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/deer-scat.jpg?h=bbaa1a72&itok=yOEOEyG3)
Keep yourself busy this winter by taking part in our weekly nature activity challenge. This week we're getting down and dirty to examine what our local wildlife has left behind.
![A man looks through binoculars at a river valley in winter.](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/river-man-binoculars-winter.jpg?h=0ee69755&itok=khwCIZZw)
Keep yourself busy this winter by taking part in our weekly nature activity challenge. This week visit some open water to see what animals you can spot.
![Chaga on a birch tree.](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/chaga1.jpg?h=7ed7d581&itok=Rcdb8Emu)
Chaga can be found on birch trees in forests across Minnesota and is prized for its medicinal uses.
![A snowy owl flies through the air clutching its captured prey](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/snowy-owl-mathew-schwartz-unsplash.jpg?h=2c8d63f9&itok=FQ5VRntN)
Looking for ways to keep yourself busy this winter? Once a week for the next 12 weeks we will share a new nature activity for you to try, and we're kicking it off with owling!
![A pine forest.](/sites/extension.umn.edu/files/styles/crop_featured_image_crop/public/EnvArea-Forestry.png?h=c744404a&itok=qX0yZ-93)
Family woodland owners are some of Minnesota's greatest stewards of our forests.