Endangered plant saved by purple passion

Article by: KEVIN GILES , Star Tribune
Updated: December 22, 2012 - 11:21 PM

Conservationists have rallied to save the endangered dotted blazing star from the path of the new St. Croix River bridge. Next spring, a handful of plants will multiply into hundreds, possibly thousands.

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Willy53Dec. 29, 1211:20 AM

The last paragraph in this article is the key. The bridge footprint is small potatoes compared to the impact of massive sprawl im Wisconsin. One of the legacies of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is that it preserves species along the river corridor and impedes development by denying a proliferation of bridges and the massive ones that Amy and Norm enabled right here in the Valley. And by the way, how did that mussell transplanting go? I have heard nothing about it. You know, the largest bed of native mussells in Minnesota that are smack dab in the middle of the bridge footprint of huge piers. Things to watch: the massive cut in the Wisconsin side that landed outside of the protected river boundaries and didn't get as much pub as it would have had it been within the protected river corridor. This bridge really is massive. Looking from Pioneer Park it will obliterate the valley to the south. Welcome the urban metro area to the valley, Stillwater and the surrounding area will be transformed.