Forest Lake resident and lakeshore property owner Jack MacKenzie wasn’t always aware of how his lawn affected the health of the lake he lived on. His career as a full-time landscape manager often left him little time to properly maintain his own piece of land.
Retirement and a journey toward becoming a master watershed steward, however, completely changed the way he approached personal turf management. Now MacKenzie aims to inform others and save our local lakes, one education session at a time.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The St. Croix Master Watershed Stewards Certificate Program is a two-year pilot project, one of just three in the nation funded in the fall of 2015 by the EPA Office of Environmental Education. The adult learning program is similar to those used to train master gardeners or master naturalists. In the spring and early summer of 2016, a unique curriculum was offered that combined the topics of watershed ecology, leadership,
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