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Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway Two large trumpeter swans swim in profile. They are banded around the neck as part of the reintroduction of this species to the river.
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Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway
Materials For Loan

Would you like your students to learn more? Listed below are a selection of videos and an exotic species travelling trunk that can be borrowed. e-mail to make arrangements. Loan period is for two weeks. Riverway ships to school, schools pays return shipping costs.

VIDEOS
St. Croix Reflections: follows a family's fall canoe trip. The trip is interspersed with recreations of historic scenes of voyageurs and lumbermen. National Park Service -12 minutes

Cold Wet & Alive: A canoe trip with friends and some simple inconsequential mistakes lead to hypothermia and near tragedy. American Canoe Association - 22 minutes

Last Log Drive: The last log drive in Minnesota on the Little Fork River near International Falls. Similar to what occurred on the St. Croix. Minnesota Historical Society - 10 minutes

Last of the Jacks: The jacks were the workers who got the logs out of the woods and to the sawmills. They had their own vocabulary and style. Minnesota Historical Society - 15 minutes

Lyme Disease: Hitchhikers in the Woods: Learn about deer ticks and the Lyme disease some of them carry. Deer ticks are found in the Riverway. Gundersen Medical Foundation - 13 minutes

Mussel Menace: Zebra Mussels and You: Learn about this exotic species that threatens St. Croix River wildlife. Sea Grant - 15 minutes

National Park Service: An American Legacy: A 1991 video history of the National Park Service created for the 75th anniversary of its founding. National Park Service- 28 minutes

Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes: A creative geography lesson where a canoe tours the Great Lakes while traveling through time. Canada Film Board - 16 minutes

The Wolf: A Howling in America's National Parks: The wolf, its history, and the role it plays in America's National Parks. National Park Service - 30 minutes

  

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Last Updated: February 03, 2011 at 10:53 MST