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Special Places UMMER ULY S 2017 (J ) Special Places PARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA NEWSLETTER ers My ifer Jenn Big Bog State Rec Area by Inside this issue LETTER FROM BRETT .............................PG 2 TRAIL COUNTERS GO UP .....................PG 3 LEGISLATIVE RECAP ...........................PG 4-5 NOISE ...................................................PG 6 ST. CROIX SP PLAN ...............................PG 6 MILL TOWNS TRAIL OPENS ..................PG 7 DR. DOROTHY ANDERSON ..................PG 8 FRONTENAC & FRIENDS ................... PG 11 rd 3 Annual Atop bluff Parks & Trails Council acquired for Frontenac with lakelet leading into Lake Pepin. Photo Contest! Land Project Update Enter thru Aug. 20, 2017 3 CATEGORIES Adding a new view to Frontenac State Park t the entrance to Frontenac State of this land’s natural beauty, you would Park lays 161.33 acres of land need to climb its blu, which looks thatA has been a farm, a (unsanctioned) out in the opposite direction from landll and an explosion reenact- park’s famous Lake Pepin overlooks. ment testing grounds. Yet, its scenic From atop the newly acquired, peace- vistas and proximity to the state park ful blu you will see the meandering foreshadowed other uses. In May the waters of the lakelet and creek that fate of this land was sealed as Parks & wrap around the southern end of the Trails Council purchased it to become park and ow into Lake Pepin. part of the park. is view (photo above) is what If you’ve ever visited the park you’ve captured the attention of Parks & glimpsed this land, which is along Trails Council’s then president Mike $300 in prizes for 1st - 3rd places Highway 2, just north of the bridge Tegeder as he visited with members of See all the entries & submit your photos at crossing the Pleasant Valley Lakelet the Frontenac State Park Association www.parksandtrails.org and Creek. But to see the full extent Frontenac State Park | pg. 9 Acquiring, protecting and enhancing critical land for the public's use & benefit From the Executive Director Long-term vision in a short-term world By Brett Feldman as important state assets even though landscape when it comes to adding we don’t believe that raising fees 40 land to our parks and trails. anks While the report percent in a single year is a sustain- to our $5 million Samuel H. Morgan card for all things able way to keep parks operating or Land Fund we have been able to step conservation and accessible to all Minnesotans as was up when lawmakers don’t have the the environment intended when voters overwhelm- capacity and/or will to do so. In the may not have been ingly passed the Clean Water, Land past year we have acquired key lands one you want to and Legacy Amendment nine years that will one day be part of Fronte- take home to mom ago. (See page 4-5 for a full legislative nac State Park (See story on page 1), and dad this legislative session, Min- recap). Sibley State Park, and we are in the nesota’s parks and trails didn’t fare too midst of adding land to another park badly overall. Motorized recreation So, as we do whenever skies are even that we hope to tell you about soon. is still prohibited in state parks – for the slightest bit gray: we look for now, several key park and trail proj- silver linings. Here at Parks & Trails As always, parks and trails are a team ects were funded, and the state park that means we focus on how well we sport requiring us all to do our part. operating budget is sucient enough are fullling our mission of acquiring, anks to you – our members – we that we won’t see immediate service protecting and enhancing critical land have continued our proud record of cuts or stang reductions, albeit the for the public’s use and benet. With accomplishment in a world dened by Legislature cut $3 million in General this as our measure, we are proud to short-term thinking. My words to you Fund support from the previous year share our report card with you. As a for this summer and fall: Go out and and backlled that cut with a 40 per- 63-year-old nonprot that has a long- enjoy all that you have helped protect cent increase in park entrance fees to term vision for Minnesota’s parks and for present and future generations ... make ends meet in 2018 and 2019. trails, we are proud that we have been until we call on you again. able to serve as a counter balance for We continue to be pleased that legis- some of the short-term thinking that lators of all stripes see parks and trails has recently dominated the political We are a proud member of the Minnesota Environmental Fund, a workplace giv- ing option comprised of 21 environmental nonprots working to protect, conserve and restore Minnesota’s environment. Visit the website to see if you can donate through your workplace or to nd out how to add your workplace to the program. www.mnenvirofund.org T ­ Minnesota TRAILS A Parks & Trails Journal / MnTrails.com www.mntrails.com page 2 July 2017 Research Update Making Minnesota’s trails count, one person at a time In 2015, Parks & Trails Council Foremost, the automatic trail coun- Twin Cities Metropolitan area, and initiated a program to collect data ters, because they can count continu- Root River and Harmony-Preston in on how many people use Minne- ously for weeks at a time, will enable the southeast. We’ve selected sam- sota State Trails. at study was just us to calculate signicantly more pling locations along each trail, and the start, however, and we’re excited accurate estimates than did our 2015 we will be installing our counters at to announce we are expanding the manual counts. e automatic coun- each one for a week or two at a time. program in 2017 with the addition of ters will also allow us to study how automated trail counting equipment. trail use varies daily and hourly. Once We’ll move on to additional trails all the data is analyzed, it will assist in future years to ensure all of Min- We’ve purchased two sets of trail trail managers in planning and policy nesota’s state trails are accounted for. counters, and through a partnership decisions, and will guide our discus- Eventually, we’ll be able to return to with the DNR, we are installing them sions with legislators about why trails the same sites on a regular cycle to at select locations. Our trail counters are worth the investment. measure long-term trends in trail use. are portable, can dierentiate between pedestrians and bicyclists, and count Since we don’t have the resources (or We started collecting data in mid- trail users 24 hours a day, 7 days a the time) to count every mile of trail May and will have the counters in the week. in a single summer, we’re focusing eld until early October. We’ll keep our eorts this year on the following everyone updated on our progress and e use of automatic trail counting state trails: Paul Bunyan in the north, let you know when to expect the nal equipment will help us overcome Gateway and Brown’s Creek in the results. several limitations of our 2015 study. What kind of data are we collecting? We’re using automatic trail counting equipment to collect hourly trac counts at selected trail locations across Minnesota. Our data will tell us how many pedestrians and bicyclists use trails each hour, and will allow use to calculate estimates of monthly and annual trac. Total Daily Trac on Sunday, May 14 = 1,440 Hourly Between 2pm and 3pm, our Trac: equipment registered 183 150 bicyclists and 42 pedestrians 100 50 6:00 am 12:00 pm 6:00 pm Example data from Brown’s Creek State Trail near Manning Avenue Our trail counting equipment on the Root River State Trail near Rushford, MN. July 2017 page 3 Legislative Session Recap Session ends with mixed bag for parks and trails e 2017 legislative session was a will not fully oset the General Fund nesota’s parks and trails rely on two back-and-forth aair. Gov. Dayton cut; to make ends meet, the DNR will dedicated funding accounts: the Parks vetoed the rst round of budget bills have to use a small reserve account and Trails Legacy Fund, which voters sent to his desk, a Special Session and rely on an agency-wide operating approved in 2008, and the Environ- was required to avoid a government adjustment that Gov. Dayton secured ment & Natural Resources Trust shutdown, and as of this writing, a in last-minute negotiations. Fund (ENRTF), which is funded by legal dispute on legislature funding the State Lottery. remains unresolved. Still, a number of In the short term, the DNR says key bills were passed that impact - for the new budget should be sucient e Parks and Trails Legacy Fund is better and for worse - Minnesota’s to avoid service cutbacks. at’s the used to take care of existing facilities, parks and trails. good news. But long-term, the new expand programming that connects budget increases the risk of decits. people to the outdoors, and develop Operating Budget: Entering the leg- new park and trail opportunities. islative session, P&TC advocated that Bonding Bill: Lawmakers passed a Legacy Funds, which generate ap- lawmakers use a small fraction of the large, $988 million bonding bill after proximately $45 million per year, are $1.6 billion budget surplus to increase a similar bill fell apart during the split between DNR state parks and spending on parks and trails.
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