Please join the Minnesota Association of Environmental Professionals (MNAEP) for their January Event “The Story of Salt Pollution: From Source to Solutions”. Drinks and snacks will be provided before and after the presentation. With winter comes a routine in Minnesota: gloves, window scraping, dreams of a remote car starter, added time for your commute, making sure the emergency kit is stocked, etc. What you may not have stopped to think of, or perhaps have and always wondered, is the effect…

Minnesota Bumble Bees with a Focus on the Federally Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bee SCHEDULE: 4:00-4:30pm Networking 4:30-5:30pm Seminar 5:30-7:00pm Networking Happy Hour @ Urban Growler (2325 Endicott Street, St Paul) PRESENTERS: • Elaine Evans, Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Elaine Evans is a University of Minnesota Extension Educator working on pollinator education and research relating to bee conservation. Her current work focuses on determining the status of bees in Minnesota, monitoring threatened populations of the rusty-patched bumble bee, and…

This will be MNAEP’s 2nd brown bag presentation, entitled “Adaptive Management: What it is, When to do it, and What the courts think” presented by Chapter President Mike Mayer. Mike is an adaptive management instructor at the National Conservation Training Center and will discuss the Department of the Interiors approach to adaptive management and the treatment the approach has received from the courts. Beverages will be provided to members; $5 attendance fee for non-members. 5-530: Happy Half-hour 5:30-6:15: Presentation 6:15-7:00:…

Join us for a presentation on “Water Works: A Case Study of Integrating Complex Cultural Resources into a Multi-Disciplinary Project Approach” followed by a happy hour! Please note, this event starts at Mill Ruins Museum but will move to Crooked Pint at 6:30pm. 5:30PM-6:30PM: Brownbag Topic: Water Works Case Study Presentation Mill City Museum (704 South 2nd St. Minneapolis) 6:30PM-8:30PM: Networking Happy Hour The Crooked Pint (501 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis) This will be MNAEP’s first brown bag, entitled “Water…