Finding spring in the river world of Fort Snelling State Par

Finding spring in the river world of Fort Snelling State Park


Finding spring in the river world of Fort Snelling State Park
Finding spring in the river world of Fort Snelling State Park
A morning walk revealed nature's slow churn and the stark beauty of flood plain forest. 
By Bob Timmons, Illustrations by Mark Boswell
April 23, 2021 — 12:35am
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I quickly found it.
At first blush and from a distance, I thought I was marveling at waterfowl, bunches of them swept slowly along in the eddies of a coffee-brown Minnesota River. But my idea broke apart like the white objects before me. They weren't more swans like the pairs anchored in a nearby backwater pond. Turns out they were the remains of winter upriver: small flotillas of ice and dirty snow in their last throes. I clearly had found a marker of spring, and it was fitting. Water is a dominant theme in the flood plain forests of Fort Snelling, one of the most visited of Minnesota's state parks to hike, picnic, bird watch and explore.

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