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Flandrau State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, on the Cottonwood River adjacent to the city of New Ulm.[1]

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  1. 109 relations: Acer saccharinum, Acer saccharum, Algona, Iowa, American mink, American pioneer, Andropogon gerardi, Architecture of Germany, Aspen, August Schell Brewing Company, Base level, Battles of New Ulm, Bedrock, Bottomland forest, Brown County, Minnesota, Carp, Casement window, Celtis occidentalis, Charles Eugene Flandrau, Civilian Conservation Corps, Conglomerate (geology), Cottonwood River (Minnesota), Coyote, Cretaceous, Cross-country skiing, Dakota War of 1862, Dam removal, Dormer, Downcutting, Drainage system (agriculture), Dutch elm disease, Farmworker, Flood, Flood control, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Game fish, Geographic Names Information System, German prisoners of war in the United States, Germans, Glacial River Warren, Gradient, Granite, Gray fox, Great Depression, Hermann Heights Monument, Horseshoes (game), Hydroelectricity, Ice sheet, Indian agent, Iron oxide, Juniperus virginiana, ... Expand index (59 more) »

  2. 1937 establishments in Minnesota
  3. Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota
  4. German-American culture in Minnesota
  5. Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
  6. Rustic architecture in Minnesota

Acer saccharinum

Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple, creek maple, silverleaf maple, soft maple, large maple, water maple, swamp maple, or white maple, is a species of maple native to the eastern and central United States and southeastern Canada.

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Acer saccharum

Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.

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Algona, Iowa

Algona is the county seat of Kossuth County, Iowa, United States.

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American mink

The American mink (Neogale vison) is a semiaquatic species of mustelid native to North America, though human introduction has expanded its range to many parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.

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American pioneer

American pioneers, also known as American settlers, were European American, Asian American and African American settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States of America to settle and develop areas of the nation within the continent of North America.

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Andropogon gerardi

Andropogon gerardi, commonly known as big bluestem, is a species of tall grass native to much of the Great Plains and grassland regions of central and eastern North America.

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Architecture of Germany

The architecture of Germany has a long, rich and diverse history.

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Aspen

Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.

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August Schell Brewing Company

The August Schell Brewing Company is a brewing company in New Ulm, Minnesota, that was founded by German immigrant August Schell in 1860. Flandrau State Park and August Schell Brewing Company are German-American culture in Minnesota.

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Base level

In geology and geomorphology a base level is the lower limit for an erosion process.

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Battles of New Ulm

The Battles of New Ulm, also known as the New Ulm Massacre, were two battles in August 1862 between Dakota men and European settlers and militia in New Ulm, Minnesota early in the Dakota War of 1862.

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Bedrock

In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.

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Bottomland forest

Bottomland forest is woodland on lowland alluvial floodplains or lower terraces of rivers and streams.

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Brown County, Minnesota

Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Carp

The term carp (carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia.

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Casement window

A casement window is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side.

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Celtis occidentalis

Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America.

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Charles Eugene Flandrau

Charles Eugene Flandrau (July 15, 1828 – September 9, 1903) was an American lawyer who became influential in the Minnesota Territory, and later state, after moving there in 1853 from New York City.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Cottonwood River (Minnesota)

The Cottonwood River (Dakota: Wáǧa Ožú Wakpá) is a tributary of the Minnesota River, long, in southwestern Minnesota in the United States.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cross-country skiing

Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance.

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Dakota War of 1862

The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict between the United States and several eastern bands of Dakota collectively known as the Santee Sioux.

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Dam removal

Dam removal is the process of demolishing a dam, returning water flow to the river.

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Dormer

A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.

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Downcutting

Downcutting, also called erosional downcutting, downward erosion or vertical erosion, is a geological process by hydraulic action that deepens the channel of a stream or valley by removing material from the stream's bed or the valley's floor.

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Drainage system (agriculture)

An agricultural drainage system is a system by which water is drained on or in the soil to enhance agricultural production of crops.

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Dutch elm disease

Dutch elm disease (DED) is caused by a member of the sac fungi (Ascomycota) affecting elm trees, and is spread by elm bark beetles.

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Farmworker

A farmworker, farmhand or agricultural worker is someone employed for labor in agriculture.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Flood control

Flood control (or flood mitigation, protection or alleviation) methods are used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters.

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Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Fraxinus pennsylvanica, the green ash or red ash, is a species of ash native to eastern and central North America, from Nova Scotia west to southeastern Alberta and eastern Colorado, south to northern Florida, and southwest to Oklahoma and eastern Texas.

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Game fish

Game fish, sport fish or quarry refer to popular fish species pursued by recreational fishers (typically anglers), and can be freshwater or saltwater fish.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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German prisoners of war in the United States

Members of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. Flandrau State Park and German prisoners of war in the United States are world War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Glacial River Warren

Glacial River Warren, also known as River Warren, was a prehistoric river that drained Lake Agassiz in central North America between about 13,500 and 10,650 BP calibrated (11,700 and 9,400 14C uncalibrated) years ago.

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Gradient

In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function f of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued function) \nabla f whose value at a point p gives the direction and the rate of fastest increase.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Gray fox

The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), or grey fox, is an omnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, widespread throughout North America and Central America.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Hermann Heights Monument

The Hermann Heights Monument is a statue erected in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States. Flandrau State Park and Hermann Heights Monument are German-American culture in Minnesota.

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Horseshoes (game)

Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Ice sheet

In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than.

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Indian agent

In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with American Indian tribes on behalf of the government.

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Iron oxide

Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen.

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Juniperus virginiana

Juniperus virginiana, also known as eastern redcedar, red cedar, Virginian juniper, eastern juniper, red juniper, and other local names, is a species of juniper native to eastern North America from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and east of the Great Plains.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.

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Lyon County, Minnesota

Lyon County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Marsh

In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.

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Martin Luther College

Martin Luther College (MLC) is a private Lutheran college in New Ulm, Minnesota.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Minnesota Historical Society

The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution dedicated to preserving the history of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Minnesota River

The Minnesota River (Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Moraine

A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.

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National Park Service rustic

National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings that harmonized with the natural environment.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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New Ulm, Minnesota

New Ulm is a city and the county seat of Brown County, Minnesota, United States. Flandrau State Park and New Ulm, Minnesota are German-American culture in Minnesota.

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New World warbler

The New World warblers or wood-warblers are a group of small, often colorful, passerine birds that make up the family Parulidae and are restricted to the New World.

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North American beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species, along with the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber).

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Northern hardwood forest

The northern hardwood forest is a general type of North American forest ecosystem found over much of southeastern and south-central Canada, Ontario, and Quebec, extending south into the United States in northern New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, and west along the Great Lakes to Minnesota and western Ontario.

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Northern pike

The northern pike (Esox lucius) is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (pikes).

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Oxbow lake

An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.

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Paned window (architecture)

In architecture, a paned window is a window that is divided into panes of glass, usually rectangular pieces of glass that are joined to create the glazed element of the window.

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Panfish

The word panfish, also spelled pan-fish or pan fish, is an American English term describing any edible freshwater fish that usually do not outgrow the size of an average frying pan.

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Populus deltoides

Populus deltoides, the eastern cottonwood or necklace poplar, is a species of cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States as well as the southern Canadian prairies, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Quercus macrocarpa

Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak or burr oak, is a species of oak tree native to eastern North America.

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Raccoon

The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Rough fish

Rough fish (or the slang trash fish or dirt fish) is a term used by some United States state agencies and anglers to describe fish that are less desirable to sport anglers within a defined region.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Secondary forest

A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, such as timber harvest or agriculture clearing, or equivalently disruptive natural phenomena.

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Sedimentation

Sedimentation is the deposition of sediments.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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Skilled worker

A skilled worker is any worker who has special skill, training, knowledge which they can then apply to their work.

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Sleepy Eye, Minnesota

Sleepy Eye is a small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States.

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Smallmouth bass

The smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of the order Perciformes.

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Snowshoe

Snowshoes are specialized outdoor gear for walking over snow.

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Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single cell with little or no contact with other people.

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Sorghastrum nutans

Sorghastrum nutans, commonly known as either Indiangrass, yellow Indiangrass, or golden feather grass, is a North American prairie grass found in the Central United States, the Eastern United States, and Canada, especially in the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies.

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is a natural exit point at which groundwater emerges from the aquifer and flows onto the top of the Earth's crust (pedosphere) to become surface water.

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State park

State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision.

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Striped skunk

The striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) is a skunk of the genus Mephitis that occurs across much of North America, including southern Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico.

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Sumac

Sumac or sumach is any of about 35 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera in the cashew family (Anacardiaceae).

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Tallgrass prairie

The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.

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Thrush (bird)

The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution.

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Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.

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Till

Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.

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Ulmus americana

Ulmus americana, generally known as the American elm or, less commonly, as the white elm or water elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America.

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Unemployment

Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Vireo

The vireos make up a family, Vireonidae, of small to medium-sized passerine birds found in the New World (Canada to Argentina, including Bermuda and the West Indies) and Southeast Asia.

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Virginia opossum

The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), also known as the North American opossum, is the only opossum living north of Mexico, its range extending south into Central America.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Water chlorination

Water chlorination is the process of adding chlorine or chlorine compounds such as sodium hypochlorite to water.

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Western Interior Seaway

The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, and the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.

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Whitewater State Park

Whitewater State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, preserving a stretch of the Whitewater River surrounded by rocky bluffs. Flandrau State Park and Whitewater State Park are Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota, historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota, park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota, rustic architecture in Minnesota, state parks of Minnesota and works Progress Administration in Minnesota.

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Wildfire

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

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Willow

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.

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Woody plant

Bold text A woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue and thus has a hard stem.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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See also

1937 establishments in Minnesota

Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota

German-American culture in Minnesota

Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota

Rustic architecture in Minnesota

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flandrau_State_Park

Also known as Camp New Ulm.

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