Dakota County's other protected areas
February 4, 2012 at 8:06AM
Chimney Rock is the fourth Scientific and Natural Area in Dakota County. The others are Black Dog, a rare fen in the Minnesota River bottoms in Burnsville; Pine Bend Bluff on the Mississippi River in Inver Grove Heights, and the Hastings Sand Coulee prairie, south of town along Hwy. 316 in Marshan Township.
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