BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180930 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE SUMMARY:Itasca State Park Naturalist Programs DESCRIPTION:Itasca's Mysteries in History: The Itasca Biological Station\n\nSaturday\, September 29\, 2018\n\nFrom 1-2 p.m.\n\nMeet at the new Itasca Campus Center located on the Itasca Biological Station campus (along Main Park Drive\, watch for signs).\n\n \n\nIn 1907 the University of Minnesota (U of M) held its first field classes in Itasca State Park. Join us at the Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories for a tour of this historic location. Discover the old and the new! Tour the new Itasca Campus Center before we head out to locate the site of the State Park House\, where Mary Gibbs lived in 1903. See one of the few 1930s National Youth Administration or NYA constructed buildings in the state as we follow the route of the 1920s era Jefferson Highway as it passed through the field station.\n\n \n\nMushrooms in the Afterlife (of trees)\n\nSaturday\, September 29\, 2018\, from 2:30-4 p.m.\n\nMeet at the Bio-Center at the Itasca Biological Station (north end of the park)\n\n \n\nJonathan Schilling\, Director of the University of Minnesota's Itasca Biological Station and a Professor in Plant & Microbial Biology will lead a talk and walk focused on Fall mushrooms and the role of fungi in the 'circle of life' for trees. When a tree falls in the woods\, and nobody is there to hear it\, fear not - it made a sound\, like a dinner bell\, to all of the fungi in the area. Tree death and decay is part of what makes Itasca and its old growth special\, and the fungi that dominate this process are part of the massive biofiltration system that cleans the water draining into Lake Itasca. We will meet indoors with Jonathan\, first\, and then move outside to see what's fruiting and to hunt for fungi controlling the afterlife of trees.\n\n \n\nItasca's Music Under the Pines: Craig Willis\n\nSaturday\, September 29\, 2018 from 7-8:30 p.m.\n\nMeet inside the Jacob V. Brower Visitor Center Classrooms\n\n \n\nEnjoy this music performance by singer and songwriter Craig A. Willis\, whose "cowboy at heart" spirit is reflected in his original songs about the beauty of country living. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Itasca&rsquo\;s Mysteries in History: The Itasca Biological Station
\nSaturday\, September 29\, 2018
\nFrom 1-2 p.m.
\nMeet at the new Itasca Campus Center located on the Itasca Biological Station campus \;(along Main Park Drive\, watch for signs).
\n \;
\nIn 1907 the University of Minnesota (U of M) held its first field classes in Itasca State Park. Join us at the Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories for a tour of this historic location. Discover the old and the new! Tour the new Itasca Campus Center before we head out to locate the site of the State Park House\, where Mary Gibbs lived in 1903. See one of the few 1930s National Youth Administration or NYA constructed buildings in the state as we follow the route of the 1920s era Jefferson Highway as it passed through the field station.
\n \;
\nMushrooms in the Afterlife (of trees)
\nSaturday\, September 29\, 2018\, from 2:30-4 p.m.
\nMeet at the Bio-Center at the Itasca Biological Station (north end of the park)
\n \;
\nJonathan Schilling\, Director of the University of Minnesota'\;s Itasca Biological Station and a Professor in Plant &\; Microbial Biology will lead a talk and walk focused on Fall mushrooms and the role of fungi in the '\;circle of life'\; for trees. When a tree falls in the woods\, and nobody is there to hear it\, fear not - it made a sound\, like a dinner bell\, to all of the fungi in the area. Tree death and decay is part of what makes Itasca and its old growth special\, and the fungi that dominate this process are part of the massive biofiltration system that cleans the water draining into Lake Itasca. We will meet indoors with Jonathan\, first\, and then move outside to see what'\;s fruiting and to hunt for fungi controlling the afterlife of trees.
\n \;
\nItasca&rsquo\;s Music Under the Pines: Craig Willis
\nSaturday\, September 29\, 2018 from 7-8:30 p.m.
\nMeet inside the Jacob V. Brower Visitor Center Classrooms
\n \;
\nEnjoy this music performance by singer and songwriter Craig A. Willis\, whose "\;cowboy at heart"\; spirit is reflected in his original songs about the beauty of country living.

\n LOCATION:Itasca State Park Park Rapids\, MN UID:e.91.23111 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260403T222425Z URL:https://business.parkrapids.com/events/details/itasca-state-park-naturalist-programs-23111 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR