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I ' . . 0 • 1- . -• 0 • Eden Prairie grows wild over land deal . , , City votes 2,071 -366 to keep 96 acres au naturel , By Duchesne Paul Drew the city. The City Council will issue Eden Prairie Parks Commissioner ,-., Staff Writer $1.95 million in bonds and pay about Bob Lambert spent much of the past •a: , $20,000 per acre. two years working on the land acqui- '• 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 : L- ., 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 •":. I 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 5B . ....• • ... Eden Prairie/. Proposed preservation areas . .. , The land will 7-....-ig ,,, LaStakreing remain virtually ----- O Riley Creek untouched Riley Creek.6 Charlson Prairie ' cc cc Bluff site .1°C Cith:1 -1&-.--;-R , • Continued from page 1B ' A • ' - - -4"AirPorIrr--:- tfiNt-t- trails, will remain virtually un- a. umbull c . F7F, touched. Picnicking and camping Rd. .8 4 ,,;''.i won't be allowed. "We will manage I" V these properties to pres re- erve the -------------_ __________________k -1:'-'•-•!-- -1=-0—'1' '''''''''- •• sources that make.them valuable to ,e'i.:"~-:;.ir,1:''',1• us,"he said. L'„•.- ,;:::i..7••' -; Lambert was disappointed when he Star Tribune Map 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 ap- land,Lambert said, might assist neighboring communi- proved. . ties in preserving some of their{nide- . 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 .,• 5 -,2 clii SLIPht -a ttNu • .., • • . ,