Voyageurs Conservancy helps to introduce Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota’s only national park, to K-12 students through outdoor education and virtual workshops.
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This is Minnesota's Legacy, a look at the organizations and the people who have benefited from Minnesota's Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.
Breanna Trygg: Once you get out onto the water, you are away from cell phones, you're away from the busy world, and you're just on the water, passing by the loons watching all the big white pines and these big, beautiful rocks.
Britt Aamodt: Breanna Trygg is talking about Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota's far north.
Breanna Trygg: It's my favorite place on the globe.
Britt Aamodt: Our state's only National Park, which has some of the oldest rocks on Earth among its 218,000 acres of forest, wildlife and water.
Breanna Trygg: Forty percent of it is water. So you really do need to get on the water, either on a boat in the summer or across the ice in the winter, to really, truly experience the park.
Britt Aamodt: Breanna is an education and outreach director at Voyageurs Conservancy, the park's supporting organization. With Minnesota's Legacy Fund, they've been able to introduce K-12 students to Voyageurs through in-park field experiences and through virtual workshops.
Breanna Trygg: To really open up the unbelievable educational classroom that is Voyageurs National Park.
Minnesota's Legacy is produced by AMPERS with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Online at AMPERS dot ORG.