Partnership Profile
For Scott County, Great River Greening has provided a full spectrum of assistance to its natural areas and parks:
Communication
Great River Greening wrote and designed a brochure to announce a Natural Areas Legacy program Scott County unveiled in 2009. The material identified important natural area corridors, along with cost-share and incentive opportunities that were available to landowners to implement land stewardship practices.
Leveraging of Resources
In total, Great River Greening helped to support the restoration work by leveraging resources from state funding sources. So far this has amounted to over $160,000.The partnership with Scott County builds on Greening’s deep understanding of the management needs of Minnesota’s native ecosystems, crafted through more than 50 years of on-the-ground experience.
Implementation of Restoration
At Spring Lake Regional Park, a new park of 400 acres with great diversity and high quality natural communities, Great River Greening has helped the county in three phases of restoration and enhancement, bringing resources from the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, providing restoration oversight, and engaging hundreds of volunteers in ongoing stewardship events. For Cedar Lake Farm Regional Park, which is spectacularly situated along the shoreline of Cedar Lake, Greening has begun the work of implementing inlet channel reconfiguration, wetland restoration, and shoreline planting by volunteers.
Planning for the Natural Areas Legacy Program
Greening contributed to a stewardship report for the county, in collaboration with the Minnesota Land Trust. Our ecologists outlined the long-term financial obligations associated with protecting natural areas, including stewardship of the land and administrative management of easements.
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