Sherry:

Would be fun to see your photo project, if you would like to share?

Charlene Nelson 
Grant County farm

> On Nov 20, 2025, at 8:24 AM, Steve Weston <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sherry,
> No. You are thinking of the 140th Street Marsh. The 180th Street Marsh, aka
> Marshall's Marsh, is in pristine condition. Despite being surrounded by
> farmland, it scores as one of Dakota County's best by the WHEP program.
> 
> Steve Weston
> On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM Sherry Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Isn't this also the marsh that is disappearing under the landfill?  In
>> fact, it is mostly gone now, squeezed between a landfill and a FedEx
>> center, our stuff and our stuff.  I did a photo project about this for my
>> class last summer.
>> 
>> Sherry Gray
>> Saint Paul, Minnesota
>> 
>>      __o
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>> ( * ) /  ( * )
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 12:16:25 AM EST, Steve Weston <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The owners of the aggregate quarry on the hill above the 180th street marsh
>> have purchased the two properties to the north and are seeking a permit to
>> expand the rock quarry. At this point I have heard nothing to indicate that
>> the Vermillion town supervisors think that a mining operation is in any way
>> not compatible with a sensitive wetland habitat even if it is a waystation
>> for rare migrants or endangered and threatened breeding birds and turtles.
>> 
>> Good birds: I have a report of a Ross's Goose flying over Cedar Avenue near
>> Farmington High School. I don't know if the observer was able to report
>> this bird on eBird.
>> 
>> Steve Weston
>> On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
>> [email protected]
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