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From Bruce White, Pilot Knob Preservation Association ([email protected]) For those of you who have been helping out and following the effort to protect Pilot Knob from development over the last four years, there are several events on the 8.5 acres of land purchased in December 2005 (with the aid of public and foundation money) which the City of Mendota Heights will protect as a public space. The city will hold a dedication ceremony there on June 1 at 3:00 PM. On May 27, Great River Greening, which has been hired to aid in a 9-year plan to restore the native prairie and oak savanna that once covered this site will hold a buckthorn-removal on adjacent wooded portions of Acacia Cemetery. Volunteers are needed to help out with this work. The public is welcome at both events. Please contact event organizers to let them know you are coming. More details on these events are described below. Also for those of you who are interested the Pilot Knob exhibit, highlighting the history, cultural value, and natural beauty of Pilot Knob (including the birds) is now on display in Mendota Heights City Hall, at the corner of Lexington Ave. and Highway 110. *Thursday, June 1, 3:00, Dedication Ceremony at the north end of Pilot Knob Road in Mendota Heights* The City of Mendota Heights is inviting the public to attend a Dedication Ceremony for Pilot Knob. The dedication will celebrate the City's acquisition of a part of Pilot Knob and its preservation as an historical, cultural, environmental, and spiritual treasure for future generations. At this event which will take place on the 8.5 acres of land now owned by the city of Mendota Heights, musician Mitch Walking Elk will perform a thank-you song, Mayor John Huber will be master of ceremonies and there will be thank-you remarks from the Trust for Public Land, Gail Lewellan of the Pilot Knob Preservation Association, Tom Egan of Dakota County, State Sen. Jim Metzen and State Rep. Rick Hanson. A no-trespassing sign now on the site will be taken down and replaced with a sign that describes the importance of the place and thanks all those who aided the preservation of this piece of Pilot Knob. There will be refreshments served. The ceremony will be held June 1st, 2006 from 3:00 to 4:30 P.M. The site is located at the very north end of Pilot Knob Road (next to Acacia Cemetery) Please RSVP to Nancy Bauer at the City of Mendota Heights at 651-452-1850 before May 26th, 2006 *Saturday, May 27, Buckthorn Busting on Pilot Knob under the direction of Fred Harris of Great River Greening* (As described in an email from Fred Harris.) Volunteers will arrive at Pilot Knob, at the North End of Pilot Knob Road in Mendota Heights, at 9:00 am for registration, coffee and snacks on site. They will head out and start buckthorn cutting by 9:30 am. Volunteers will stack the material in piles. The work will continue until 11:30 am. Sharon Lennartson of the Mendota Mdewakanton community (tel 651-452-4141) invited the group to reconvene at Dakota Crossing immediately after the work for some food, a short presentation about Pilot Knob. Joan Gudmestad from Starbucks said she will provide coffee and pastries for breakfast. We have invited a biology class from Dakota County Technical College, members of Pilot Knob Preservation Association, the Sierra Club, and a group from Starbucks in Eagan to participate in this event. We can use as many volunteers as you can provide. Our goal is to have at least 60 people out at the site. There is a huge thicket of buckthorn on the Acacia Cemetery property to be busted! Starbucks may provide some matching funds to help cover the costs of organizing and holding this event. Acacia Park Cemetery has also agreed to cost share on buckthorn removal and later stump treating with herbicide. For questions, contact me. Fred Harris, Ph.D. Lead Ecologist Great River Greening 35 West Water St. St. Paul, MN 55107-2016 tel. 651-665-9500 x19 fax. 651-665-9409 www.greatrivergreening.org --------------060600040405030407080706 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> >From Bruce White, Pilot Knob Preservation Association (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>)<br> For those of you who have been helping out and following the effort to protect Pilot Knob from development over the last four years, there are several events on the 8.5 acres of land purchased in December 2005 (with the aid of public and foundation money) which the City of Mendota Heights will protect as a public space. The city will hold a dedication ceremony there on June 1 at 3:00 PM. On May 27, Great River Greening, which has been hired to aid in a 9-year plan to restore the native prairie and oak savanna that once covered this site will hold a buckthorn-removal on adjacent wooded portions of Acacia Cemetery. Volunteers are needed to help out with this work. The public is welcome at both events. Please contact event organizers to let them know you are coming. More details on these events are described below.<br> <br> Also for those of you who are interested the Pilot Knob exhibit, highlighting the history, cultural value, and natural beauty of Pilot Knob (including the birds) is now on display in Mendota Heights City Hall, at the corner of Lexington Ave. and Highway 110.<br> <br> <b>Thursday, June 1, 3:00, Dedication Ceremony at the north end of Pilot Knob Road in Mendota Heights</b><br> The City of Mendota Heights is inviting the public to attend a Dedication Ceremony for Pilot Knob. The dedication will celebrate the City’s acquisition of a part of Pilot Knob and its preservation as an historical, cultural, environmental, and spiritual treasure<br> for future generations.<br> <br> At this event which will take place on the 8.5 acres of land now owned by the city of Mendota Heights, musician Mitch Walking Elk will perform a thank-you song, Mayor John Huber will be master of ceremonies and there will be thank-you remarks from the Trust for Public Land, Gail Lewellan of the Pilot Knob Preservation Association, Tom Egan of Dakota County, State Sen. Jim Metzen and State Rep. Rick Hanson. A no-trespassing sign now on the site will be taken down and replaced with a sign that describes the importance of the place and thanks all those who aided the preservation of this piece of Pilot Knob. There will be refreshments served.<br> <br> The ceremony will be held June 1st, 2006 from 3:00 to 4:30 P.M. The site is located at the very north end of Pilot Knob Road<br> (next to Acacia Cemetery) Please RSVP to Nancy Bauer at the City of Mendota Heights at 651-452-1850<br> before May 26th, 2006<br> <br> <b>Saturday, May 27, Buckthorn Busting on Pilot Knob under the direction of Fred Harris of Great River Greening</b><br> (As described in an email from Fred Harris.) Volunteers will arrive at Pilot Knob, at the North End of Pilot Knob Road in Mendota Heights, at 9:00 am for registration, coffee and snacks on site. They will head out and start buckthorn cutting by 9:30 am. Volunteers will stack the material in piles. The work will continue until 11:30 am. Sharon Lennartson of the Mendota Mdewakanton community (tel 651-452-4141) invited the group to reconvene at Dakota Crossing immediately after the work for some food, a short presentation about Pilot Knob. Joan Gudmestad from Starbucks said she will provide coffee and pastries for breakfast.<br> <br> We have invited a biology class from Dakota County Technical College, members of Pilot Knob Preservation Association, the Sierra Club, and a group from Starbucks in Eagan to participate in this event. We can use as many volunteers as you can provide. Our goal is to have at least 60 people out at the site. There is a huge thicket of buckthorn on the Acacia Cemetery property to be busted! <br> <br> Starbucks may provide some matching funds to help cover the costs of organizing and holding this event. Acacia Park Cemetery has also agreed to cost share on buckthorn removal and later stump treating with herbicide.<br> <br> For questions, contact me.<br> <br> Fred Harris, Ph.D.<br> Lead Ecologist<br> Great River Greening<br> 35 West Water St.<br> St. Paul, MN 55107-2016<br> tel. 651-665-9500 x19<br> fax. 651-665-9409<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.greatrivergreening.org";>www.greatrivergreening.org</a><br> </body> </html> --------------060600040405030407080706--
