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Long Lake Conservation Center on the Tuesday Morning Show

Dave McMillan on the Tuesday Morning Show

Long Lake Conservation Center located near Palisade, MN is a county park and a nature education facility. It’s a place for learning, discovery and connecting to nature. Their mission is to encourage the exploration, conservation, education and appreciation of nature. Dave McMillan, manager of the Long Lake Conservation Center, joins Heidi Holtan and John Latimer to talk about the facility. The Long Lake CC has been connecting students with nature since 1965. The programs include a 3-day 2-night stay for kids, spent outdoors learning about nature. There are also ski trails and hiking trails open to the public. For more information go to longlakecc.org.

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Heidi Holtan is Director of Content and Public Affairs. She manages producers/hosts and is the host of the KAXE Morning Show, including a variety of local content like Phenology, What's for Breakfast, Area Voices, The Sports Page and much more, alongside Morning Edition from NPR.
As a mail carrier in rural Grand Rapids, Minn., for 35 years, John Latimer put his own stamp on a career that delivered more than letters. Indeed, while driving the hundred-mile round-trip daily route, he passed the time by observing and recording seasonal changes in nature, learning everything he could about the area’s weather, plants and animals, and becoming the go-to guy who could answer customers’ questions about what they were seeing in the environment.