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SUMMARY:ST CROIX VALLEY Presentation: The Fight to Save America’s Prairie — A Public Talk in the St. Croix Valley
DESCRIPTION:The Fight to Save America’s Prairie — A Public Talk in the St. Croix Valley\nA quiet tragedy is unfolding on the American prairie: We are plowing up the continent’s remaining grasslands at the rate of roughly 1 million acres a year— nearly as fast as we are destroying the Amazon rainforest.\nThis is a disaster for wildlife, climate change, clean water and the lakes and rivers of the heartland. But across the prairie many beacons of hope are emerging.\nIn Minnesota, Montana and other states, conservation groups are restoring and re-wilding large grassland expanses. There is even hope in Washington: the American Grasslands Conservation Act would reward farmers, ranchers and other landowners for preserving healthy grasslands.\nYet prairie enthusiasts are battling some of the mightiest forces in America: Agrochemical conglomerates that profit from row-crop agriculture; commodity lobbyists who fiercely defend federal subsidies that drive the plow; a food industry built on endless supplies of cheap corn and soybeans. In the 19th century we lost 99 percent of the tall-grass prairie to the plow.\nToday, can we save the great grassland expanses that remain?\nDate:  May 7 (Thursday)\nTime:  5:00 pm: Tour of church prairie labyrinth and 2-acre restored prairie\nIn addition to the prairie restoration through deforestation and burning to help native plants in the ground recover, a native plant labyrinth was also created.\nThe site for the labyrinth is where a playground was once located and the area needed substantial work to prepare for native plants. The design for the 25′ diameter labyrinth was provided by Lisa Moriarty and contains a 280′ walking path with planted beds. Memorial Lutheran started the Strawberry Festival many years ago and to reflect that, the plantings in the beds will be predominantly wild strawberries.\nAt each of the “nodes” in the 3-circuit medieval horizontal design there will be a variety of other low growing forbs (kitten tails, prairie smoke, cardinal flowers, etc.) to provide color throughout the season.\nAdditional prairie plants and grasses will be planted around and behind the labyrinth to create an area of solace and interest to those walking the path.\nTime:  6:00 pm: “Sea of Grass” talk.\nLocation:  Memorial Lutheran Church, Afton\n15730 S Afton Blvd, Afton, MN 55001\nMap to location ( https://share.google/vA92RgKaR8Hp3PzTp )\nOur Speakers\nDave Hage\nIndependent Journalist\nDave Hage oversaw environmental and health reporting at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for a dozen years, editing projects that won a Pulitzer Prize and an Edward R. Murrow Award, among other honors. His previous books include No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor’s War at Hormel, and Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work. A Minneapolis native, he lives in St. Paul with his wife.\nJosephine Marcotty\nReporter • Star Tribune\nJosephine Marcotty is an award-winning environmental journalist who has spent her life in the Midwest. She was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she covered complex, science-based topics. Sea of Grass is a natural expansion of her reporting on the vanishing prairie and the consequences of intensive agriculture. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband.\n
URL:https://theprairieenthusiasts.org/events/earth-day-st-croix-valley-chapter-2-512-139-642-917-717-150-302-837-645/
ORGANIZER;CN=Robert Marquis:MAILTO:Robert_Marquis@umsl.edu
CATEGORIES:St. Croix Valley
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