Lake Elmo Park Reserve

Just off the edge of a growing Twin Cities suburb, a grass path slips between tall pines, crosses an old prairie, and disappears into the woods. It looks like ordinary countryside, yet almost none of it is an accident. This ground was shaped by a wall of ice, claimed and named and signed away, and then, in our own lifetimes, deliberately set aside to grow wild again. Welcome to Lake Elmo Park Reserve. Filmed June 2024. CHAPTERS 0:00 Lake Elmo Park Reserve 0:43 Where Are We 1:21 A River of Ice 2:04 The Kettle Country 2:46 Where Prairie Meets Oak 3:27 Mni Sota Makoce 4:08 The Land Between Two Rivers 4:50 The 1837 Treaties 5:28 The White Pine Rush 6:10 Settlers and Bass Lake 6:48 The Name on the Lake 7:29 From Farm to Park Reserve 8:12 Eighty Percent Wild 8:52 The Nordic Trails 9:31 The Living Reserve 10:10 Keep Exploring CREDITS Music: Earth Prelude by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0. Narration is AI generated; history verified against public sources. @fruworldexplorer