This year’s citizen science event, July 8, is when participants fan out to find bugs, plants, fungi and more. Participants in a past BioBlitz in the Sax-Zim Bog verify different sedges near Stone Lake ...

MEADOWLANDS — When most people think of birding in the Sax-Zim Bog, they probably think of parking along a gravel road, looking for great gray owls or other winter visitors and trying to dodge traffic ...

Post Bulletin columnist John Weiss recently visited Sax-Zim Bog, near Virginia, Minn., for the first time. He was uninspired at first glance, but greatly rewarded for his patience. A boreal chickadee ...

Friends of Sax-Zim Bog formed in 2010 when naturalist Sparky Stensaas of Wrenshall realized the biologically diverse habitat of bog was being threatened. Stensaas had been birding the Bog since the ...

Summer is almost underway and so is much of the programing for the Sax-Zim Bog. The bog is located in an area that used to be a glacial lake millions of years ago. It’s a huge hub for biodiversity. So ...

Sax-Zim Bog located in Saint Louis County features natural phenomenon spanning from prime owl watching, to the occasional view of Northern Lights. Clinton Dexter-Nienhaus, Head naturalist at the Bog, ...

The Sax-Zim Bog Welcome Center re-opened for the winter on Sunday, December 1. The center, located in Toivola, Minnesota, allows people to talk to a naturalist, warm up by the stoves, shop, use the ...

Brown: I grew up in a Minnesota bog the size of New York City; I didn’t know it was special. The Sax-Zim Bog in northern Minnesota is considered to be one of the world’s most interesting natural ...