On December 17th, 2018 the Youth Eco Solutions (YES!) Program announced the 2018-19 winners of the McKnight Foundation Project Seed Funding. Funding was awarded to teams implementing projects that involve creating solutions to today's environmental challenges through hands on projects that impact their school and/or communities. Through a competitive process, 5 teams received funding to complete
Climate Change
Forest Lake YES! Projects
Written by: Phoebe Karan At the beginning of February this school year, the Forest Lake High School Environmental Club YES! Team received funds from the McKnight Foundation for their project Reducing Energy and Habitats for Bees. The group has since then been using the fundings to first educate the school and community, then to provide LED light bulbs and finally to create another
Climate Change and Peat Bogs
On March 12th, 12 students from the Northern Lights Community School YES! team and their coaches ventured up to the Marcel Experimental Forest to learn about the Spruce Project. The Spruce Project is a longitudinal study of how Climate Change will affect the peat bogs of the northern hemisphere. Our tour guides for the day were John Latimer, KAXE Staff Phenologist and research assistant for the