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Blazing trails at Barnes

January 11, 2009

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Bruce Laidlaw, intrepid weatherman and cross-country skier, is over at Barnes Park, grooming the trails.  He’s working around windfall, some of it branches, some whole trees.  Moving branches is right up my alley, especially if there is cocoa afterward.  I’ve offered to help next time he’s out there, and to recruit some other branch-draggers, too.  […]

A park for all reasons

August 15, 2008

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If you live around here you know that Barnes Park has a great beach and beautiful campsites.  But did you know it has a network of trails that wind through the woods, past a prairie restoration, around a wetland, and through stands of oak, aspen, red pine, white pine and jack pine?  Did you know that […]