Thanks for listening to The Watershed, a podcast of We Are Water MN. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Phil Prosapio, current board president of the Friends of Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Tune in to
learn about the value of places like Crane Meadows. We’ll also learn about the vital role wetlands play in keeping our state’s waters clean.

We Are Water MN will be hosted by Mississippi River - Sartell Watershed partners including Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District in spring of 2024. You can visit the exhibit at Art in Motion on the Lake Wobegon Trail, in Holdingford, from April 25 through June 17. Learn more at https://www.stearnscountyswcd.net/wawmn.

This episode of the Watershed was produced by Angela Hugunin, and by We Are Water MN, which is led by the Minnesota Humanities Center in partnership with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; the Minnesota Historical Society; the Board of Water and Soil Resources; the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources; and University of Minnesota Extension.

We are Water MN is funded in part with money from the Clean Water, Land, & Legacy Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008 and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Special thanks to Emma Needham, who conducted our interviews in Holdingford. Thank you to Dr. Phil Prosapio, our interviewee for this episode.

Resources mentioned in this episode:
· Friends of Crane Meadows National Wildlife
Refuge: friendsofcranemeadows.com
· Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/crane-meadows

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Music credits: These Times and On Top of It by Blue Dot
Sessions (⁠www.sessions.blue⁠). 

You can learn more about We Are Water MN and upcoming host sites at ⁠mnhum.org/water⁠.