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The Mallard of One Mile Lake LbNA #49897 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 22, 2009
Location:
City:Fergus Falls
County:Otter Tail
State:Minnesota
Boxes:1
Planted by:The Happy Wanderer
Found by: Tricky Troy
Last found:Oct 23, 2009
Status:FF
Last edited:Aug 22, 2009
Find your way to the One Mile Lake Nature Area, taking 19th Street off of Hwy 210 east on the southeast corner of Fergus Falls. The parking lot and picnic shelter is just off the first gravel road after turning onto 19th. You will hike about a mile out to where The Mallard of One Mile Lake is resting, and you'll want to bring along colored markers to achieve the effect of the striking colors of the male mallard.

Pick up a trail guide at the trail entrance just off the parking area. This will allow you to fully appreciate your hike on this gem of a nature trail as you identify some of the native plants of the prairie.

Follow the trail, noting the marker signs along the way. Take the signs in order, 1-23. As you reach #10, keep to the right (left takes you on the short loop back to the parking lot.) Note especially at #11 the remains of the old oxcart trail.

You will pass by some sets of two bluebird houses, one on the left of the trail, and one on the right. Shortly after trail marker #14, and then past two more sets of these houses, you'll find a tree with a rounded crown on the left side of the trail, just before you come to a row of houses at the far north end of the Nature Area. The Mallard of One Mile Lake is resting behind the tree at its base.

Please reseal and replace behind the tree for the next seekers to find.

Continue on around the rest of the trail, or go back the way you came, but be sure to enjoy the prairie plants as you go.