Minnesota River Valley Natural Restoration
Bloomington completes first prescribed burn in river bottoms
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Parker's Picnic Area Prescribed Burn and Oak Savannah Restoration Report
The speaker reported on the successful completion of a prescribed burn on 8-10 acres at Parker's Picnic Area, marking the first such burn in the river bottoms. The project is part of an ongoing Oak Savannah Restoration, initially funded by a CPL grant, and is now managed annually by park maintenance. Collaboration with the fire department and Fish and Wildlife ensured safety during the burn. Post-burn activities included clearing woody material and planting native grass seeds to enhance ground layer vegetation and provide future fuel. This effort contributes to a 60-acre restoration goal in the river bottom lands and is intended to be expanded throughout the River Valley.
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And probably the first time ever we've done prescribed burns in the river bottoms. So it's a pretty significant project, pretty significant accomplishment.
It meets a lot of our goals, a lot of goals that we've had outlined in our prioritization plan and our river bottoms natural resources plan.
Part of our objective with that is to kind of give some biomass removal from all the, the woody growth on here and create a more open oak savanna type ecosystem. And another objective of these projects is to establish ground layer vegetation.
Ordinances & Resolutions (4)
State-funded grant project that initially funded the Oak Savannah Restoration.
Internal document outlining goals that the prescribed burn project meets.
Specific plan outlining goals that the prescribed burn project meets.
Source for more information on natural resources projects in Bloomington.