Revitalizing Anoka County’s Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park

On Saturday, September 25, Tree Trust gave 20 community volunteers the tools and training they needed to plant 30 trees in Anoka County’s Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park.

Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park is one of Anoka County’s most popular parks, offering year-round recreation activities. Like others throughout Minnesota, this 446-acre park has lost a number of trees over the years to Dutch elm disease.

Thanks to a $5,000 grant from Connexus Energy that was awarded to Tree Trust’s Community Forestry program, the community planting event on September 25 helped replace lost trees and revitalize the park. Trees planted in Anoka County’s Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park included hackberry, bur oak, American basswood, Kentucky coffee and autumn blaze maple.