Date: 11/20/25 3:20 pm From: Jim & Charlene Nelson <00003b87f2c9230f-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: [mou-net] Threat to 180th Street
From my great distance, I’m wondering if the St Paul Pioneer Press would be more interested?
Charlene Nelson
Grant County farm
> On Nov 20, 2025, at 4:44 PM, Sherry Gray <0000436d53c2070c-dmarc-request...> wrote:
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> I will write. Thank you, Steve, for bringing this to everyone's attention.
> Sherry GraySaint Paul, Minnesota
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> On Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 05:40:18 PM EST, linda whyte <0000004e7b0e779a-dmarc-request...> wrote:
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> We might try writing to Commissioner Joe Atkins about our concerns:
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> Even though we may not live in Dakota County, many of us bird there - and
> spend "road money" there for fuel and food. Over the years, birding
> "specials" have brought many visitors in to do so. Besides that, residents
> might have some appreciation of wetlands as opposed to rocks!
> Linda Whyte
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> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 4:17 PM Steve Weston <sweston2g...> wrote:
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>> Yes!
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>> Steve Weston
>> On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
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>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM linda whyte <
>> <0000004e7b0e779a-dmarc-request...> wrote:
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>>> This is an even more consequential and egregious threat, especially given
>>> that 140th has so little left to offer wildlife of its original resources.
>>> Disturbing the 180th would deprive migrators of crucial R & R in the
>>> migratory flyway, not to mention breeding habitat for resident species.
>>> The
>>> county should try living up to that "Forever Wild" motto.
>>> Linda Whyte
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>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 6:53 AM Sherry Gray <
>>> <0000436d53c2070c-dmarc-request...> wrote:
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>>>> Oh, got it, so both marshes in Dakota Co under threat. Vermillion isn't
>>>> much interested in conserving either of these spots, it appears.
>>>> Sherry GraySaint Paul, Minnesota
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>>>> On Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 07:48:19 AM EST, Monica Bryand <
>>>> <mjbryand...> wrote:
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>>>> 140th Street Marsh is the one by the Fed Ex building.
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>>>> Monica Bryand
>>>> Urban Bird Collective <https://urbanbirdcollective.org/> >>>> 651-246-5522
>>>> Monica Bryand Photography
>>>> http://monicabryandphotography.com/ >>>> <http://monicabryandphotography.com/> >>>>
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>>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM Sherry Gray <
>>>> <0000436d53c2070c-dmarc-request...> wrote:
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>>>>> Isn't this also the marsh that is disappearing under the landfill? In
>>>>> fact, it is mostly gone now, squeezed between a landfill and a FedEx
>>>>> center, our stuff and our stuff. I did a photo project about this
>>> for my
>>>>> class last summer.
>>>>> Sherry GraySaint Paul, Minnesota
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>>>>> On Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 12:16:25 AM EST, Steve Weston <
>>>>> <sweston2g...> wrote:
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>>>>> The owners of the aggregate quarry on the hill above the 180th street
>>>>> marsh
>>>>> have purchased the two properties to the north and are seeking a
>>> permit
>>>> to
>>>>> expand the rock quarry. At this point I have heard nothing to indicate
>>>> that
>>>>> the Vermillion town supervisors think that a mining operation is in
>>> any
>>>> way
>>>>> not compatible with a sensitive wetland habitat even if it is a
>>>> waystation
>>>>> for rare migrants or endangered and threatened breeding birds and
>>>> turtles.
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>>>>> Good birds: I have a report of a Ross's Goose flying over Cedar Avenue
>>>> near
>>>>> Farmington High School. I don't know if the observer was able to
>>> report
>>>>> this bird on eBird.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve Weston
>>>>> On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
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