Our Collective Legacy

For more than 70 years, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine has engaged and informed readers with stories of Minnesota’s woods, waters, and wildlife. Featuring some of the region’s best-known outdoor writers and photographers, MCV delivers in-depth, in-the-field coverage of the great outdoors―from birding and camping, to hunting and fishing, to hiking and paddling. Readers turn to MCV for news, information, and ideas on critical issues in conservation.

This new iPad version of a recent story, “Our Collective Legacy,” presents four wild and natural places Minnesotans helped save. Find out how and visit these beautiful places with the MCV Legacy app. You’ll find―

- A design as meticulous as the magazine’s award-winning print edition
- iPad-only photographs, slideshows, and audio
- Interactive images that offer panoramic views.

More about us: The Conservation Volunteer was first published in October 1940 by the then-Department of Conservation for the citizens of Minnesota and, in particular, a group dubbed Conservation Volunteers. Early issues asked readers to take a pledge “to support by word and deed all aspects of conservation.” In 1980, due to a state budget shortfall, the magazine began asking readers for financial support. Since 2003, reader contributions have covered the cost of publishing. The magazine’s circulation, originally limited to 5,000 copies, has grown to over 130,000 subscribers.