A new nonprofit with local roots aims to combine the arts and conservation to “restore and re-story rural landscapes throughout the Central Flyway.”

Josh Anderson, a native of Park River, North Dakota, and Austen Camille, a Canadian-American artist with Texas roots, recently founded the nonprofit Flyway Foundation. The pair, who met in November 2024, are dedicated “to fostering multigenerational and interspecies collaborations in the rural landscapes that they love deeply,” their new website states.

Anderson, earlier this month, resigned as watershed coordinator for the Walsh Three Rivers Soil Conservation District in Park River, a position he’d held for nearly three years, to devote his time to the new venture. Before that, he was a professor of American literature at a university in

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