ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP:

"A merely utilitarian landscape cannot sustain the part of us that needs wildness, spirit, mystery, delight, beauty, celebration, and attachment to place." David Orr (Orr 1996)

The Cannon River Watershed
Created By: Allison M. Lambert
St. Olaf College
ES 399 Spring 2004

PURPOSE STATEMENT:
Education, Knowledge, Understanding, Connection, & Significance of Place

METHODOLOGY:
An Exploration of Individual Habitat Case Studies and Their Components

SPECIES PROFILES:
The Parts that Make up the Whole

WHAT IS THE CANNON RIVER WATERSHED?

CONSERVATION
Maintaining Pre-existing Habitat

RESTORATION
Re-creating Destroyed Habitat

The Donkers' Homestead:

Conservation of forest, prairie, and wetland

Valley Grove:

Restoration of short, mixed, and tall grass prairie

Nerstrand State Park

Big Woods Forest Conservation

Straight River Marsh:

A restored wetland and upland prairie

CONCLUSIONS
THE LITERATURE
All photographs and drawings on this web site were created by Allison M. Lambert.
Works Cited