Connecting Kids, Art, and Nature

The prairies, woods and bluffs of the lower St. Croix River are rich with life. Birds and bugs, turtles and trees, squirrels and snails all play a part in the ecosystem.

The Junior Girl Scouts who worked on the Art Bench at Carpenter Nature Center near Afton discovered a lot about the many creatures who call the area home, and were inspired to represent the complex web of life in the bench they made with artist Estela de Paola de Lerma.