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Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

Dr. William S. Cooper, head of the botany department at the University of Minnesota, urged a newly formed committee of the Minnesota Academy of Science to purchase part of the Anoka Sand Plain in 1937. The Cedar Creek Forest was a bit of natural Minnesota worthy of active protection from disturbance, he believed. He and others would help establish and protect what became the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, about thirty miles north of the Twin Cities.

Citizen scientists at work at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

Citizen scientists at work at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
Description: Citizen scientists at work at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photograph by Caitlin Barale Potter, August 7, 2016.

Students on a field trip to Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

Students on a field trip to Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photograph by Caitlin Barale Potter, September 20, 2016.

Students on a field trip to Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

Students on a field trip to Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photograph by Caitlin Barale Potter, September 20, 2016.

Cedar Bog Lake

Cedar Bog Lake. Photograph by Caitlin Barale Potter, June 23, 2017.

Prescribed burn inside Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve

Prescribed burn inside Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photograph by Susan Barrot ca. 2010s.

Red-headed woodpecker

Red-headed woodpecker with geolocator backpack in Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photograph by Siah St. Clair, April 24, 2017.

BioCON Project

Aerial view of BioCON, a free carbon experiment investigating the effects of global change on ecosystems, in Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photograph by Jacob Miller, July 26, 2014.