HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978 04-27 New nature center well recieved DISPATCH New nature center well received
By SCOTT CARLSON f ::. :.:
Gange has been su ervisin . ; '
Staff Writer workers with the park cleanup. 'MC]pim&wOOd . r.y:.
Once it was the unofficial site We been cutting out trails," eral grant funds,Blank said.
fora dump. Gange adds. "A lot of it we're Maplewood is paying 25 percent '
laying by hand." of the$176,400 estimated total
Refrigerators,oil drums and cost he added. k ,,..e.pt,e,:i., ::
other debris could be found Meanwhile,construction of a .;
strewn along the 40 acre site and $116,000 interpretative center Gange says that a floating
in its marshy ponds,according to park building has begun. It will board walk,across one of the ..
marshy ponds,is planned for the
Maplewood city naturalist Me- haveda rough shake exterior and � �"
gan Gange. include an office, a lab, and future. However,a more imme- `
classroom. diate concern,she adds,is get tea: • };
But the lana has been cleared ting volunteer nature guides toy
of the trash and is being opened GANGE ALSO reports that help with the programs. a _
to the public as the Michael Lane the city will go ahead with$500 .. g
Nature Center. in plantings. "We'll really need a lot of ;
people,"Gange noted,once the
LOCATED NORTH of Min- Eric Blank,Maplewood corn- interpretative center is complet
nehaha Avenue and west of Cen- munity services director, said ed in August.
tory Avenue,the nature center is the 40 acre site was identified by
designed to preserve a wide vari- Brauer and Associates,in a 1974 IVat�re �e11te�' 404-...-, ,,,
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ety of wildlife and vegetation, park land study,as a unique area x
according to city officials. for a nature center.Most of the needs donations ft`; .:,:_,-.
property was obtained bythe
And already the center is Donations are being sought for
being well received,Gange inch city as tax-delinquent land,he the Michael Lane Nature Center z 3 fr '
said. .
cater. All the way through May in Maplewood,according to park ""
I'll have classes(to take around Most of the costs are being naturalist Megan Gange.
the nature trails),"she says. picked up through state and fed Nature books and magazines, ` ' �'
audio visual equipment,slide
projectors and other materials
will be needed for the interprets- Megan Gange
tive center building when it
opens in August,Gange said.
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