Press Releases
- Dec 6, 2022: A Night of Midwinter Family Fun at Belwin
- Oct 11, 2022: Belwin Celebrates the Winter Solstice
- July 22, 2022: Land Art to Be Unveiled on August 21st
- July 5, 2022: “Music in the Trees” Returns to Belwin
- May 15, 2022: Belwin Bison Festival Returns Saturday, May 21
- November 23, 2021: Winter Solstice Bonfire moves to Lucy Winton Bell Athletic Fields
- September 21, 2021: All of Belwin’s trails open for 50th Celebration Open House
- July 21, 2021: Anishinabe Academy in Minneapolis and Belwin Conservancy announce new partnership made possible by state funding
- July 14, 2021: Music in the Trees event is August 14-15
- December 21, 2020: “Belwin at 50” anniversary show on display at The Phipps January 15, 2021-February 21, 2021
Belwin In the News
- December 2, 2022: Roaming Stone Sculpture Recalls A Memory of the Prairie (St. Croix Valley Mag)
- October 6, 2022: Belwin’s new nature preserve in Afton opens to the public this weekend (Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com)
- October 5, 2021: Belwin Conservancy Marks 50 Years (Star Tribune)
- September 25, 2020: Play this fall: Ideas for where to hike… (Star Tribune)
- August 15, 2020: Bored with your walking routes? Try these Twin Cities hidden… (Star Tribune)
- May 22, 2020: Watch: Bison are back at Belwin (St. Croix 360)
- May 2020: Belwin Conservancy is a hidden treasure in Afton (Woodbury Magazine)
- May 18, 2019: A big, hairy solution to restoring Minnesota’s prairies (MPR News)
- May 16, 2019: Bison return to Afton’s Belwin Conservancy this weekend (Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com)
- May 16, 2019: Bison festival welcomes herd this weekend (The Gazette)
- January 3, 2019: Valley Creek flows clear and cold on a midwinter’s night (East Metro Water)
- January 3, 2017: Finding light in the darkness (East Metro Water)
- June 8, 2016: Giants of the prairie (East Metro Water)
- June 2020: The bison at Belwin have become a beloved … (St. Croix Valley Magazine)
- June 15, 2015: Belwin Conservancy offers bison, trails and sports… (RiverTowns.net)
- June 7, 2013: Give me a home where the buffalo roam (East Metro Water)
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About Belwin Conservancy
Belwin Conservancy is a nonprofit organization with a mission of inspiring connection and engagement with the natural world. At Belwin, we spark passion for wild places through a variety of innovative experiential programs that include the arts, astronomy, athletic fields, bison, education, and public access to our restored lands. Through land protection and habitat restoration, we revive threatened ecosystems so wildlife can thrive for generations to come. Located in Afton, Minnesota, on the ancestral home of the Wahpekute Dakota people, Belwin’s 1,500 acres of permanently protected land includes woodland, prairie, oak savanna, ponds, streams, and wetlands.