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BATTLE CREEK REGIONAL PARK - DRY PAIRIE AND OAK WOODLAND RESTORATION
GRG and Ramsey County Parks and Recreation are working together on these two ecological restoration projects. A contractor crew joined GRG's crew in removing invasive species, including buckthorn, Tartarian honeysuckle, black locust, boxelder and cottonwood along the southern bluff of Battle Creek and the eastern bluff of the Mississippi River in 2001. The GRG crew began seeding prairie species in unshaded areas along the river bluff, where several prairie remnants remain. Kitten-tails, a rare plant, is found in the oak woodland site. Large fields of brome grass, visible from the park entrance, will be sprayed and seeded in 2002.
Funded in part by the
Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, as recommended by the
Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources.
