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On July 11, 2020, Scheels opened a two-story, 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) store at the Eden Prairie Center in Eden Prairie, MN. [7] Outside of the Midwest, Montana has three Scheels locations in Billings, Missoula, and Great Falls. Utah has a location in Sandy. Colorado has two locations in Johnstown and Colorado Springs.
Central Minnesota is the central part of the state of Minnesota. No definitive boundaries of the region exist, but most definitions would include the land north of Interstate 94 , east of U.S. Highway 59 , south of U.S. Highway 2 , and west of U.S. Highway 169 .
This prairie wetland complex hosts a great diversity of plant species. Of special interest is the federally threatened western prairie fringed orchid. Other communities found at the preserve include wet and mesic tallgrass prairie and gravel prairie, willow thickets, mixed prairie, sedge meadow, aspen woodlands and emergent marsh.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area comprises eleven Minnesota counties centered on Minneapolis, the state's largest city, and adjoining Saint Paul, the capital; plus two Wisconsin counties. About three out of every five residents of the state live in this conurbation. Greater Minnesota is less urbanized than the Twin Cities.
Touch the Sky Prairie was created in 2001 and is located in Rock County, Minnesota a few short miles west of Blue Mounds State Park. This remnant tall grass prairie consists of approximately 1,000 acres of native prairie grasses, wildflowers, several bird species, and a small segment of Beaver Creek. [4]
The Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area is the country's 13th largest economy based on GDP and has surpassed the Detroit metropolitan area as the Midwest's second largest economy. [1] As of 2020, there are 24 Fortune 1000 companies headquartered in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
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Osakis is a large prairie lake, with a surface area of 6,270 acres (25.4 km 2) and a maximum depth of 73 feet (22 m).Osakis is the primary source of the Sauk River, having a naturally occurring but now human-controlled outflow on the east side of the lake.