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Prairie Restoration's Newsletter
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Project News: Stearns County West Side Service Center
 PRI was fortunate to be involved with an important project this past year for Stearns County. The new West Side Service Center, located in Waite Park, features an environmentally sound landscape designed to showcase native plants and their many benefits. One such benefit is the ability of these landscapes to collect and filter stormwater. At his particular site, all of the parking lot medians were designed as rain gardens - depressed areas planted with native shrubs, grasses, sedges and wildflowers. These rain gardens, along with other swale areas incorporated in the landscape, will collect and filter the stormwater from the building and parking lot areas rather than having it runoff directly into the adjacent Sauk River. Our crews completed the landscape installation this past fall which was paid for, in part, by a grant from the Stearns County Soil and Water Conservation District. All told, almost 10 acres of native prairie were restored, compared with only one acre of traditional turfgrass. Approximately 350 native shrubs, 52 trees, 6,600 perennial plants and 400 bare root trees were also installed throughout the landscape.
Read more from our Winter Prairie View E-newsletter.
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