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The Mantrap Valley Conservation Club shut down its gun range temporarily, but according to club member Russ Olson, it’s open again and available for club members to use.
“It was closed for a while,” Olson confirmed. “We had to get our insurance in order.”
If people want to use the gun range, he said, “they just have to become a member.”
Each year, club members work with Century School fifth graders to build bluebird houses, providing materials, tools and expert help during an outing at the Environmental Education Building at the Hubbard County Fairgrounds. The enterprise caught up with Olson there on Friday, May 10.
He said he’s not sure how long the club has been doing the bluebird house project with the kids, but it’s “as long as I’ve been in the club, and that’s been 14 years.”
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They also provide the materials for Nevis fifth graders to build the bluebird houses, though those kids do it themselves. “We give them the kits and they put them together,” said Olson. “They’ve always handled them on their own.
The club also builds bat houses and wood duck houses, in addition to the youth-built bluebird houses.
“They’re available to the general public through anybody at the club, for a donation,” Olson said.
“Right now, we sponsor a couple of environmental students at Itasca for a summer program,” he added. “I think we do two $1,500 scholarships through the University of Minnesota.”
The clubhouse is located at 20115 Jewel Drive, about 1.5 miles east of Emmaville off County Road 24. For more information, visit http://mantrapvalleycc.org .
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