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Cold Spring is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States, at the gateway of the Sauk River Chain of Lakes, an interconnected system of 14 bay-like lakes fed and connected by the Sauk River. Cold Spring is part of the St. Cloud Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its population was 4,025 at the 2010 census. [5]
This list of mammals of Minnesota includes the mammals native to Minnesota. It also shows their status in the wild. There are 81 native and 5 introduced mammal species found in the state. American bison, caribou, and wolverines were extirpated from the state.
Assumption Chapel in Cold Spring, Minnesota, was established as a Christian pilgrimage shrine (German: Wallfahrtsort) [22] (German: Gnadenkapelle) [23] [24] in 1877 by German-American Catholic pioneer farmers, supposedly to keep away future locust plagues similar to those they had faced in both the 1850s and the 1870s.
Minnesota DNR "Fishes of Minnesota". Jay T. Hatch, Associate Curator of Ichthyology James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota and Konrad Schmidt, Nongame Fish Biologist Division of Ecological Services Minnesota Department of Natural Resources; Dickson, Tom. The Great Minnesota Fish Book (University of Minnesota Press ...
A 1902 scientific illustration of the Rocky Mountain locust.. According to Fr. Bruno Riss (1829–1900), a Benedictine missionary priest from Augsburg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the first Rocky Mountain locust plague to strike Central Minnesota began on 15 August 1856, during the preaching of a mission for the Feast of the Assumption by Father Francis Xavier Weninger inside the newly erected ...
The terrestrial biomes of Minnesota, prior to European settlement. Tallgrass aspen parkland/prairie grasslands in yellow, eastern deciduous forest in olive green, and the northern coniferous forest in dark green. The natural history of Minnesota covers the plant and animal species of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Barnum's Animal Crackers In 2018, Nabisco made headlines over a design change in its boxes of Barnum's animal crackers, abandoning its 116-year-old "circus cage" design to show the animals roaming ...
Fort Snelling played a pivotal role in Minnesota's history and in the development of nearby Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The history of the U.S. state of Minnesota is shaped by its original Native American residents, European exploration and settlement, and the emergence of industries made possible by the state's natural resources.