Minnesota Seasons - Antelope Valley SNA

About • Location • Activities • Ecology

About

Ownership

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Overview

History

This SNA was designated on 6/11/2015.

Management

Comments

Location

Size

160 acres

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				Yellow Medicine County
				Southwest Minnesota

Parking

Park on a field access on the west side of 270th St.

N44 40.600, W96 6.825

Maps

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Activities

Hiking

Birding

Nature photography

Cross country skiing

Snowshoeing

Trails

No maintained trails

Hunting and Fishing

All hunting and trapping. See Hunting and Trapping Regulations (MN DNR) for details.


Ecology

Ecological Classification
Ecological Province			Prairie Parkland Province
Ecological Section			North Central Glaciated Plains
Ecological Subsection			Minnesota River Prairie
Land Type Association			Renville Till Plain

Native Plant Communities*
Saline Wet Prairie Complex
* Source: The Minnesota Biological Survey, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Ecological Resources

Natural Features


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Two narrow strips of foxtail barley testifies to the passage of a two-wheeled vehicle in the not too distant past.		Intermittent Stream


The prairie is cut in half by a barbed wire fence. Based on the presence of dried cow patties, the prairie on the right has been grazed recently, the one on the left has not.


Olive Grove


Saline Wet Prairie Complex


Pond

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Antelope Valley SNA
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About

An especially unique feature of Antelope Valley SNA is mineral salt at the soil surface that supports a wet saline prairie. Very few prairies of this type occur in Minnesota and this is the first and only one protected on an SNA. A complex of wet and mesic prairies covers much of the rest of this site.

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Visits

7/3/2016


Birds
Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas Birds List

Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) Sedge Wren (Cistothorus platensis) Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta)