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This annual event encourages Americans, especially youth, to get active outdoors and embrace our parks, forests, refuges and other public lands and waters.

We can’t be with you this year due to social distancing and other guidelines set out by the CDC, but you can still participate by joining our virtual event!

You are an adult, but never learned how to ride:

Here’s an article that walks you through, with photos, the steps to take.

https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/how-to-learn-to-ride-a-bike-as-an-adult.html

You are an adult wanting to teach a child to ride:

Watch this video, which includes helmet fitting and starting with pedals off.

https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/teach-child-to-ride-a-bike.html

You already know how to ride and want to become a bicycle leader and ambassador in your community:

Take a Bike Alliance of Minnesota Class: Traffic Skills 101

This traffic skills course gives cyclists the confidence they need to ride safely and legally in traffic or on the trail. The course covers bicycle safety checks, fixing a flat, on-bike skills and crash avoidance techniques and includes a student manual. Recommended for adults and children above age fourteen, this fast-paced, course prepares cyclists for a full understanding of vehicular cycling. Traffic Skills 101 is a nine-hour multi-day course and is a prerequisite to becoming a League Cycling Instructor.

 

Learn more at https://www.bikemn.org/.

How to become a backyard birder:

  1. Identify and listen for birds right outside your window. How many do you see?  Start noticing their colors, size, and what their beaks look like.  Some that you might see in Minnesota are: American Robin, Northern Cardinal and Black-Capped Chickadee. Allaboutbirds.org will help to identify them.
  2. Challenge yourself to see how many birds and other critters you can name in this wonderful recording done right here in the Twin Cities (14 min).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cFAE8nOyM

  1. Participate in the “Celebrate Urban Birds” study. It is easy—learn to ID the birds in your area (list provided), pick a time and place to watch, observe for 10 minutes, do the same time/place for three times, record your data. https://celebrateurbanbirds.org/learn/birds/fs/us/#filter=.fs-mn

Take a virtual tour of Powderhorn Lake and learn some of its history in this video by Wilderness Inquiry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcBrvXnf7ek

Learn how to fish!

This Department of Natural Resources (DNR) page can help you get started fishing. Check out these tips and links to helpful videos and blogs on how to fish, filleting fish, frying fish and more.

Licencias de Pesca

El Departamento de Recursos Naturales puede ayudar a explicar los diferentes tipos de licencias y lo que se requiere para la pesca en Minnesota.

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Where to go shorefishing

This Fishing in the Neighborhood guide [PDF] describes the locations of 70 small lakes and ponds managed by DNR’s metro fisheries program.

Here’s Powderhorn Lake information in the guide:

Location: Minneapolis, Powderhorn Park, East 35th Street and 15th Avenue South

Depth: 24 feet Size: 11 acres

Species: Bluegill, Black Crappie, Largemouth Bass, Channel Catfish, Bullhead

Extras: Basketball, good parking, fishing pier, picnic tables, playground, restrooms, volleyball, wading pool, walking path

Accessibility: Excellent

Comments: Powderhorn Lake is a favored destination for shore or pier fishing for Bluegills, Largemouth Bass and Black Bullheads. The lake is stocked with Channel Catfish. If fishing along the shore, be careful not to trample the habitat along the water’s edge. These plants provide habitat for wildlife while also filtering nutrients and runoff.

Squirrels are everywhere in urban neighborhoods.  Start learning about their behavior from this National Geographic video. Do you see the same things in your neighborhood?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/squirrel-behavior-cache-fall-video-spd/

Track what squirrel behavior you see using this data sheet Squirrel Behavior Tracking [PDF]

Be a squirrel monitor and a community scientist.  Track what squirrels you see and participate in Project Squirrel.

https://projectsquirrel.org/