Osprey Wilds

Osprey Wilds is a residential environmental learning center on the shores of Grindstone Lake in east-central Minnesota. Osprey Wilds is committed to developing an understanding, ethics and responsibility regarding the environment and stewardship through formal and informal teaching that links nature and humans.

Creators and Guests

BA

Producer

Britt Aamodt

ER

Producer

Eemanna Rivers

What is Minnesota's Legacy?

Minnesota's Legacy showcases the organizations and the people who have benefited from Minnesota’s Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment in sound-rich 90-second segments.

Opening: This is Minnesota's Legacy: A look at the organizations and people who have benefitted from Minnesota's unique Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.

BRITT AAMODT: Can you identify the bugs on an overturned log? What kind of critters live along a creek? If you were stranded in a forest in the middle of winter, could you build a fire with flint, stone and twigs?

These are just some of the skills students learn at Osprey Wilds Learning Center.

BRYAN WOOD: On roughly 780 acres in Pine County, on Grindstone Lake.

AAMODT: Bryan Wood is the center's executive director.

WOOD: We have a variety of beautiful habitats, and our mission is to instill a connection and commitment to the environment and people of all communities through experiential learning.

AAMODT: The Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund assists the center in its work to make nature accessible to students of all backgrounds.

WOOD: Some students literally are stepping off the bus as a sixth grader, and this is the first time they've been off of pavement and seen trees and seen a lake.

AAMODT: Osprey Wilds provides scholarships to schools that need them so that every kid gets to experience nature's own classroom—the great outdoors.

Closing: Minnesota's Legacy is a production of AMPERS, with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, more at ampers dot org.