On September 18, Gary Tischer made 20-minute presentations to 314 4th grade students from schools throughout northwest Minnesota, at their annual Water Festival. 

The station theme was "Park Exploration."  Presentation information included landscape changes from the time of the last glacier to the present, public lands in Minnesota and throughout the United States, and showing and telling about mammals, birds and natural landscapes to enjoy.

The festival was held at the Marshall County Fairgrounds, Warren, Minnesota.

Students should know the differences between state parks, forests, refuges and wildlife management areas and federal parks, refuges, forests and other lands.