Losing trees but saving ‘hoot’ habitat

Nov 23 2009 Karessa Weir No Comments

(MN) Minneapolis Star-Tribune - Nearly 5,000 trees, some of them 100-year-old maples and basswoods, are coming down in Lake Rebecca Park Reserve in Rockford to clear the path for a $350 million, 221-mile Northern Natural Gas Co. pipeline expansion.

Tree-cutting for the pipeline started this week along a corridor 30 yards wide and 4.25 miles long through the parkland. Construction has been strictly scheduled to avoid disturbing winter nesting by Great Horned Owls. Owl nesting places are to be moved as trees are cut. More

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