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Published October 19, 2012, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: Kelly Creek Preserve


Second grade student Lewis Mullen watches his big bluestem seeds float downward. Other students make their own discoveries.

  • Second grade student Lewis Mullen watches his big bluestem seeds float downward. Other students make their own discoveries.
  • Second-grade student Makena Marietta shows off moss found in the Northern Hardwood Forest area of the Preserve.
  • Holding a screech owl, DNR biologists Harvey Halvorsen and Melissa Sparrow describe the needs and habits of wildlife typically found in the prairies of western Wisconsin. The larger one in the background is a barred owl. (Both birds are stuffed -- not alive!)
  • Near the Kelly Creek Spring, Aleisha Miller (St. Croix County information and education specialist) uses an interactive water model to explain that the spring is one source of groundwater to the Kinnickinnic River, and that the Kinni supplies all local water to the River Falls as well as flowing on to the St. Croix, the Mississippi and into the Gulf of Mexico. Miller also discussed what an aquifer is and why the Kinni stream and its ecosystem need cold water.
  • First-grade students Helen Jiang and Elizabeth Hetchler are fascinated by the smoothness of a bobcat pelt.