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2005 Conservation Partners -Environmental Partnership Grant Application <br />City of Elk River <br />Highland Park Trail Natural Area Restoration & Environmental Education <br />1 Applicant Organization: City of Elk River <br />2 Contact Person's name and title: Bill Maertz, Director of Parks <br />3 Mailing Address: <br /> Lions Park Center <br /> 1104 Lions Park Drive <br /> Elk River, MN 55330 <br />4 Telephone: (763) 635-1150 Email Address: bmaertz@ci.elk-river.mn.us <br />5 Project Title: Highland Park Trail Natural Area Restoration & Environmental Education <br />6 Project Cost: $12,750 Grant Request $6,375 <br />7 Project Type: ^ Habitat Enhancement ^ Research /Survey ^ Environmental Service <br />8 Project Description: <br /> Elk River designed Highland Park/Trail to connect existing natural areas in other parks in the city. This <br /> project will restore 6.3 acres of existing prairie and Oak woodland, as well as design and install two <br /> interpretive signs to share natural history information with park/trail users. <br />9 Project Location: County Sheruburne City: Elk River <br />10 Project map: <br /> Please see Maps on following pages. <br />11 Public Benefit: <br /> The City of Elk River is afast-developing community that is proactively identifying and protecting <br /> natural areas as part of its strategy to build a large, interconnected park system. As part of this <br /> strategy, the City is striving to link existing park natural areas with corridors and multi-use trail systems. <br /> One such area is Highland Park, which links significant tracts of oak forest to the west, with similar <br /> areas to the east. The City views the Highland Park trail connection as an important link in our heavily <br /> used trail system, as well as an first effort for the City to carry out ecological restoration on existing <br /> natural areas and develop environmental education signage to interpret natural features of the area. <br />City of E/k River- Highland Trails Environmental Education and Natural Areas Restoration <br />2005 MN DNR Conservation Partners -Environmental Partners Grant Application <br />