Date: 11/25/25 3:41 pm From: Kathryn Rudd <katdantz...> Subject: Re: [mou-net] Threat to 180th Street
I think one or more of the local tv news stations should pick this up. Some have had stories quite frivolous compared to this.
Kathryn Rudd Eagan
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> On Nov 20, 2025, at 5:20 PM, Jim & Charlene Nelson <00003b87f2c9230f-dmarc-request...> wrote:
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> From my great distance, I’m wondering if the St Paul Pioneer Press would be more interested?
>
> Charlene Nelson
> Grant County farm
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>> 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:
>> <joe.atkins...>
>> 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!
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> 140th Street Marsh is the one by the Fed Ex building.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>> <sweston2g...>
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