Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary
This file appears in: Discover the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary
East Side activists and Lowertown residents began work together in 1997 to reclaim a 27-acre area and to develop it into a landmark that combined restoration of the riverfront habitat with public access.
Date: June, 2013
Photo by: Kimmy Tanaka
This file appears in: Discover the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary
Discover the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary
A thousand years ago the area around the confluence of Trout Brook and Phalen Brook near the Mississippi River was a marshy flood plain. By the early 1900s, the entire delta had been expanded by filling and became an industrial railroad corridor. As…