In 2009, the City of East Lansing received a Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Trust Fund grant to improve and develop Hawk Nest Park, a public park located off Coleman Road on Kiskadee Drive.
Grant funded improvements were constructed in the fall of 2010 and included a playground and picnic shelter, interpretive stops and habitat viewing platforms, open-mowed grass play areas, a 10-foot-wide extension of the Northern Tier Trail and site pathways paved in crusher-fines and re-vegetation of the site with native Michigan plant species to create diverse natural habitats.
Additional landscape material is scheduled to be planted in Hawk Nest Park in May and landscape stewardship (the care and protection of landscape material until full maturity) is scheduled to begin at the same time. The Michigan mesic prairie and emergent wetland habitats planned for this site will take two to three years to fully establish.
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In 2009, the City of East Lansing received a Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Trust Fund grant to improve and develop Hawk Nest Park, a public park located off Coleman Road on Kiskadee Drive.
Grant funded improvements were constructed in the fall of 2010 and included a playground and picnic shelter, interpretive stops and habitat viewing platforms, open-mowed grass play areas, a 10-foot-wide extension of the Northern Tier Trail and site pathways paved in crusher-fines and re-vegetation of the site with native Michigan plant species to create diverse natural habitats.
Additional landscape material is scheduled to be planted in Hawk Nest Park in May and landscape stewardship (the care and protection of landscape material until full maturity) is scheduled to begin at the same time. The Michigan mesic prairie and emergent wetland habitats planned for this site will take two to three years to fully establish.
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