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website, museum with exhibits about bears, three bear ambassadors living in a 2.5 acre naturally forested enclosure with a pond and waterfalls Oakdale Discovery Center: Oakdale: Washington: Minneapolis–Saint Paul: website, operated by the City in the 220-acre Oakdale Nature Preserve Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo: Byron: Olmsted: Southeast
The state's official natural history museum, established in 1872 for research and display of the state's plants and animals. Operated by the University of Minnesota, the museum is home to world renowned wildlife dioramas, the first discovery room in North America, and state-of-the-art digital planetarium. The museum opened a new building on the ...
The Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary is a city park in the Mississippi River corridor in Saint Paul, Minnesota.Just east of the city's downtown district, the sanctuary includes towering limestone and sandstone bluffs that date back more than 450 million years, spring-fed wetlands, abundant bird life, and dramatic views of the downtown Saint Paul skyline and Mississippi River.
The primary goal of the program is to ensure that none of Minnesota's natural heritage is lost from any ecological region of the state. The secondary goal is to provide opportunities for compatible scientific research, education, and nature-based recreation. [3] The Program currently oversees 166 SNAs. [4]
A nationally and internationally famous research center. [6] It was later designated by the National Science Foundation as a Long Term Ecological Research site in 1982. [10] Minnesota ecologists purchased land parcels through 1929 until the University's acquisition in 1940.
Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Seaford; Tanglewood Nature Center & Museum, Elmira; Trailside Museums and Zoo, Bear Mountain State Park; Trailside Nature Museum, Cross River; Up Yonda Farm, Bolton Landing; Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport; Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam; Waterman Conservation Education Center, Apalachin; The Wild Center, Tupper Lake
Major conservation partners include The Nature Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the Manitoba Conservation Data Centre, [4] the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, [5] the Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve, and Manitoba Conservation. [6] These partners collaborated to produce a Conservation Area Plan for the area in 2006. [7]
United States historic place Grand Meadow Quarry Archeological District U.S. National Register of Historic Places Nearest city Grand Meadow, Minnesota Area 170 acres (69 ha) NRHP reference No. 94000345 Added to NRHP April 8, 1994 The Grand Meadow Quarry Archeological District (21MW8) in Mower County, Minnesota, United States, is an Indigenous historic district that was added to the National ...