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Eden Prairians Grant and
Seth Liabraaten, Council Member Ron Case, Dennis and Annie Wiese
trekked through the woods on October 14, 2001.
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In 2002, Eden
Prairie Council Member Sherry Butcher and Jeff Strate reviewed
trail plans for Birch Island Woods
Conservation Area. From then through January 2008, Friends of BIW
and the City have coordinated more than 1230 volunteers in a variety
of projects including wood chip trail construction, buckthorn and
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Den 3, Cub Scout Pack
479 arrived by bicycle on the LRT trail to help with the April 20th
litter pickup of the woods..
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For
their Wolf Conservation Project the Cub Souts carried out a lot of
trash. They also found old coal along the railroad
bed trail. |
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The Birch Island Woods
"Potting Party"Saturday April 13, 2002 at the Picha Heritage
farm. That's the woods in the background.
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Terry
Picha and a neighborhood kid ready a crab apple tree.
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April 12, 2002. A biology
class from Benilde-St. Margaret's High School tours the Picha Heritage
Farm for a primer on horticultural science and saving the woods.
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to Right: Elise Sheehan (teacher), Jeff Strate (FBIW), Keith Leiseth
(Environmental Science & Ecology teacher), Terry Picha (FBIW).
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Birch Island Lake and
Park in November 2001, only to dissappear with a series of unseasonable
thaws.
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Main
trail in the woods, November 2001. |
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Representative Tom Workman
(Dst. 43A) and with Friends of Birch Island Woods, Glenshire Conservation
Group and Save the SW LRT Trail at Eden Wood Center on August 23.
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Greg
Borrell and helpers at EP Lions Club Corn Feed, Round Lake Park, August
4, 2001. |
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Hikers from Minnetonka
cool off in the woods on August 12, 2001.
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FBIW
Legal Committee Chair Geri Napuck Westermann and entourage on the
railroad trail in early August, 2001. |
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EP Council Member Sherry
Butcher (center) describing how two 1925 camp buildings at the Eden
Wood Center were rescued from demolition and became listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. The stop was part of the August
11th Bike Tour of the Birch Island Woods area.
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Bicyclers
from Minnetonka and Eden Prairie stop near the century old Picha Heritage
farm on the August 12th bike tour of the historic and scenic sites
of the Birch Island Woods area. |
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Volunteers prepare shrubs
and trees for the benefit plant sale at the Picha Heritage Farm
in early May, 2001.
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Birch
Island Woods Webmaster Dave Spoor; part of the plant sale team.
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Retired MN Highway Commissioner (and US DOT official) John
Jameison Minneapolis) visited the woods on 11/26/00 to take measure of
preservation efforts and the redevelopment and mass transit potential
of nearby industrial and commercial districts. Jameison is an advocate
of sustainable communities and energy conservation.
Met Council Member James Nelson (Columbia Heights) far left
and Commercial Real Estate Consultant Ronald Pentz (Minneapolis), far
right with Jeff Strate and Terry Picha (FBIW) at Eden Wood Center, toured
the woods with EP Parks Director Bob Lambert (unseen), 11/24/00.
Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman toured the Woods
on November 1, 2000 with EP Parks Head Bob Lambert and Terry Picha (photo
on left) and EP Council Member Nancy Tyra-Lukens (photo on right).
Greg Fangel (left), President, North Star Ski Touring club
and Floyd Lauman (right), Board of Managers, Nine Mile Creek Watershed
District, surveyed Birch Island Park, lake, and the unprotected woods
and Glen Lake Golf course on October 7. The urban bound area shows great
promise as a first class cross country skiing complex of trails with a
true wilderness feel.
Some 90 bicyclists and riders on an antique Twin Cities
Rapid Transit Bus stop at the historic Eden Wood Center and the Birch
Island Woods during this year's Tour de Sprawl. Visit News for more information
about this Sierra Club outing.
Paul Chamberlain (guitar) and Ken Sherman (violin) serenade
the last of the Tour de Sprawl bicyclists at the BIW trail head. "This
land is your land, this land is my land..."
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