A draft management plan for Buffalo River State Park, which is in a public review stage, suggests converting the sand-bottom swimming pond into a nature play area.

For generations, swimmers packed Mendon Ponds Park for a summertime dip while sunbathers soaked in the rays in the park’s beach area. The park had a staff of lifeguards, a bathhouse for changing and a ...

GLYNDON, Minn. — The swimming pond at Buffalo River State Park will remain closed again this summer, and likely for summers in the near future, as damaged infrastructure renders the pond unusable. The ...

We are now in the second half of April. This is a time of longer days — 14 hours of daylight — and warmer temperatures. Melting happens not only with snow — the snowpack lasting from late November to ...

Libby’s new swimming pond is starting to take shape. Builders have been working on the feature for a number of months and hope to have it ready to use later this month. “It is really Marc McCully’s ...

Apr. 25—Each spring, usually during April, my walking takes me on a route where I visit about 10 vernal ponds. Often called "vernal pools," they tend to be small and shallow and show up in spring.

Fern, a spotted salamander, takes Nature Cat and his friends to a vernal pond. While playing in the woods, Nature Cat and his pals come across Fern, a spotted salamander who just so happens to be ...

Often beautiful in theory, many ponds end up as stagnant corners of the garden that don’t quite earn their keep. But what if you could swap your unloved water feature for something a little more ...

After being closed for half a year, the trails at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat are again open, and spring migrants are arriving. On our first foray around the ponds since the closure, we watched ...

I arrived at Walden Pond State Reservation just after sunrise, recalling that a certain local resident named Thoreau once wrote, “Morning brings back the heroic ages.” Only a few cars were scattered ...