Antelope Valley SNA
About • Location • Activities • Ecology
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Overview |
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History |
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This SNA was designated on 6/11/2015. |
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Location |
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Size |
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160 acres |
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Park on a field access on the west side of 270th St. N44 40.600, W96 6.825 |
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No maintained trails |
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Hunting |
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All hunting and trapping. See Hunting and Trapping Regulations (MN DNR) for details. |
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Ecological Classification |
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| Ecological Province | Prairie Parkland Province |
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| Ecological Section | North Central Glaciated Plains |
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| Ecological Subsection | Minnesota River Prairie |
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| Land Type Association | Renville Till Plain |
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Saline Wet Prairie Complex |
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| Two narrow strips of foxtail barley testifies to the passage of a two-wheeled vehicle in the not too distant past. |  |
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The prairie is cut in half by a barbed wire fence. Based on the presence if dried cow patties, the prairie on the right has been grazed recently, the one on the left has not. |
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Olive Grove |
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Saline Wet Prairie Complex |
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Intermittent Stream |
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About
An especially unique feature of Antelope Valley SNA is mineral salt at the soil surface that supports a wet saline prairie. Very few prairies of this type occur in Minnesota and this is the first and only one protected on an SNA. A complex of wet and mesic prairies covers much of the rest of this site. |
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_01.jpg "palespike lobelia (var. spicata)")
_01.jpg "prairie fleabane (var. strigosus)")
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