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2. Nerstrand-Big Woods State Park - Wikipedia

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   Nerstrand-Big Woods State Park is a state park of Minnesota, US, northeast of Faribault just outside the small town of Nerstrand.The park derives its name from the Big Woods, a large, contiguous forested area covering much of southeast Minnesota prior to the 1840s, when European settlers began to establish farms in the territory, [2] and from Nedstrand in Tysvær, Norway, [3] of which ...

3. List of Minnesota state parks - Wikipedia

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   Minnesota's first attempt to create a state park came in 1885, when a 173-acre (70 ha) park was authorized to preserve Minnehaha Falls.The effort was delayed by legal appeals from the various landowners of the desired parkland, and by the time those were settled in favor of the state in 1889, Minnesota no longer had the money to purchase the land.

4. Nerstrand, Minnesota - Wikipedia

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   Nerstrand-Big Woods State Park is nearby. The nearby Valley Grove Church Building is considered an important historical site, though several active churches around the area are better preserved: St. John's United Church of Christ (3 mi southwest) Grace Lutheran Church (ELCA) (in town) Nerstrand United Methodist Church (in town)

5. Big Woods - Wikipedia

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   The Big Woods would have once covered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2) in a diagonal strip 100 miles (160 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide. Today most of this region has been cleared for agriculture and urban development. Remnant and secondary stands of Big Woods remain in parks and other protected areas.

6. Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge was established to provide a means of working with individuals, groups, private organizations, and government entities to permanently preserve a portion of the remaining remnant tracts of northern tallgrass prairie in Minnesota and Iowa.

7. Pat Bayle State Forest - Wikipedia

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   Geography; Location: Cook County, Minnesota, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 180,403 acres (73,007 ha): Administration; Established: 1963: Governing body: United States Forest Service: Website: www.dnr.state.mn.us /state _forests /sft00037 /index.html: Ecology; WWF Classification: Western Great Lakes Forests: EPA Classification: Northern Lakes and Forests: Disturbance: Wildfire: The Pat ...

8. Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   Big Stone Refuge serves as the "keeper of the prairie" by working to maintain and restore native prairie habitat while providing optimum nesting cover for waterfowl and other grassland nesting birds. The refuge contains 11,521 acres (46.62 km 2): 1,028 acres in Big Stone County and 10,493 acres (42.46 km 2) in Lac qui Parle County.

9. Big Bog State Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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   It covers 9,459 acres (38.3 km 2), primarily swamps, bogs, and upland "islands". The park was started by local grassroots efforts in 2002, it became a state recreation area and officially opened in June 2006. [1] The "Big Bog" is composed mostly of wetlands.