{"id":1004,"date":"2017-05-31T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2017-05-31T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:29:22","slug":"river-terrace-prairie-sna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"River Terrace Prairie SNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA_10.jpg\" alt=\"River Terrace Prairie SNA\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA_10.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA_10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA_10-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA_10-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>River Terrace Prairie SNA features a rare gravel prairie on a terrace above the Cannon River valley.<\/p>\n<p>The northwest-facing slope of the terrace is the best place to view native wildflowers in the spring. Visit in early May to see blooming American pasqueflower, mid-May for prairie smoke and kittentails, and late May for fringed puccoon and prairie violet.<\/p>\n<p>The old field below the terrace is a work in progress. Recent management activities in this area include cutting and stacking eastern redcedar and mowing down other woody species. A prescribed burn north and east of the terrace was conducted in the spring of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Destinations\/River_Terrace_Prairie_SNA.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1004\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Terrace Prairie SNA features a rare gravel prairie on a terrace above the Cannon River valley. The northwest-facing slope of the terrace is the best place to view native wildflowers in the spring. Visit in early May to see blooming American pasqueflower, mid-May for prairie smoke and kittentails, and late May for fringed puccoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}