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II • • Eden Prairie grows wild over land deal -: City votes 2,071 -366 to keep 96 acres au nature) By Duchesne Paul Drew the city.The City Council will issue Eden Prairie Parks Commissioner 1 Staff Writer $1.95 million in bonds and pay about Bob Lambert spent much of the past ' $20,000 per acre. two years working on the land acqui- 4•• ' 1 Eden Prairie residents voted over- sition project. He was among the whelmingly Tuesday to leave two The sites are among the few remain- weary yet happy yesterday when the parcels of land just as nature made ing undeveloped sections of the city. votes were counted. '' them—undeveloped. The first parcel is 56 acres of native prairie and oak savannah;the second He said the land, except for periodic , - ; , The vote was 2,071 to 366 in favor of is 40 acres of the Big Woods, the prairie burning and a few nature µ a city plan to buy and preserve 96 native hardwood forest that once I acres in the southwestern section of covered much of the city. Eden Prairie continued on page 513 3-` 1 s r 1, al Eden Prairie/ Proposed preservation areas The land will r.ur Riley Creek remain virally Old Woods site _ _ untouched Riley k R o Creek . Chanson Prairie :�F�ng 41) °C . Cr Bluff sit @Cfotid -, Continued from page 1B a _ .,/qj =r':, , = r^ o rye•,'. trails, will remain virtually un- III r• touched. Picnicking and camping Rd. , '_. won't be allowed. "We will manage-: - w -� , { ( ' -„:�• ,r these:properties to preserve the re= _7-- c_0--f,- '� sources that make them valuable to —'_� �`°r= +• �• � - l.. us,"he said. � ��—" �t a Grass Lake :- ,- Lambert was disappointed when he Star Tribune Map fir,: learned that the city would not re- , ceive matching funds from the Legis- Carver County. But the city would Betty McMahon; president of Eden. lative Commission on Minnesota continue to look at ways to buy that Prairie's Land Trust, said her group Resources if the bonding were op- land,Lambert said. might assist neighboring communi- proved. ties in preserving some of their Uncle- . . Eden Prairie's land preservation ef- veloped land. The matching funds would have al- fort dates to the 1960s and is part of - lowed the city to buy and preserve a nationwide movement to maintain "I think that Eden Prairie could be a °third parcel of land, a 130-acre site land in its natural condition. model for other communities," she on the Minnesota River bluffs near • _•_ ..said. 5 -a5- ' sTR -rz i? u , • •r 1 • ,.