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EXISTING CONDITIONS <br />Boundaries and Acquisition Costs <br />The Rice Creek North Regional Trail Connection links Rice Creek <br />Regional Trail to a new trail on County Road H over Hwy 10 and t <br /> ned by the Arden <br />Hills Army Training Site (AHATS). This boundary will be secured <br />The trail corridor runs along the AHATS boundary in a 150 wide <br />swath from Highway 96 to the existing Rice Creek Trail. <br />There is also an additional acquisition of land to extend the gr <br />from the proposed parking/staging/trailhead area to Hwy I (TCAAP <br />B&C). This area will also be fenced to the east to limit access <br />Long term plans supported by the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commis <br />would extend some winter access into the AHATS property for cros <br />skiing. This site is important for increasing the habitat area a <br />between existing restorations on site, Rice Creek Chain of Lakes <br />Park and AHATS, which acts as a nature preserve. <br />Purchase price of the land, through the transfer of land from th <br />the National Park Service to Ramsey County, will be minimal. As <br /> cant clean up and <br />remediation costs that will be necessary in order for Ramsey Cou <br />receive the transfer of the land. An estimate in March of 2012 a <br />$615,000 worth of demolition and soil remediation to bring the l <br />suitable level. <br />Natural Resources Inventory <br />Acquisition proposed in the 2013 <br />amendment. <br /> cant Natural Resource <br />Areas based on ecological attributes including patch size, shape <br />diversity, and adjacent land use. Rice Creek North Regional Trai <br /> ed as Regionally <br /> cant: the Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Regional Park, the AHATS pr <br />and Long Lake Regional Park. <br /> cation <br /> oodplain, grasslands with patches of deciduous forest <br />and woodlands. Much of the natural vegetation has been highly de <br />from past use as an army munitions plant and channelization of R <br />Creek. Invasive species have become widespread. The most troubl <br />species are reed canary grass. There are some areas of restored <br />amendment area. <br />Vegetation within the corridor is a mix <br />of grasslands with patches of deciduous <br />forest and woodlands. <br />Rice Creek is the dominant natural feature in the amendment area <br /> ows for 28 <br />RICE CREEK NORTH REGIONAL TRAIL <br />JUNE 18, 2013 DRAFT <br />PAGE 11 <br />MASTER PLAN AMENDMENT <br />