WKND#021 WITH SALLY HAUSKEN ABOUT GREATER SUCKER CREEK

LAKE LIFE WKND 021 Hear Sally Hausken, founder of Greater Sucker Creek, tell her story about coming to Detroit Lakes and preserving a beautiful piece of property. When Sally was a child and she visited her great-aunt's cabin on Lake Detroit on the weekends she sometimes played in the creek across the road and made it her magic place. Decades later when she retired she heard that the property was to become a housing development and she bought all the land to protect her childhood memories. Listen to the full interview in our latest podcast recording and enjoy another unique story from Lakes Country. Find more lake life stories on our daily updated website www.lakelifewknd.com #getoutandexplore #welovelakelife

The mission of the board of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota’s Greater Sucker Creek is to restore, preserve and maintain the native biodiversity of the Preserve and Upstream Sucker Creek for the education and enjoyment of all visitors.

Visitors are especially invited to this gem of northwest Minnesota parks, Greater Sucker Creek, 117 acres of natural woods and prairie, nurturing and boasting native biodiversity.

Greater Sucker Creek is its own 2-parcel mini-watershed leading from mineral springs in Upstream, along the creek in the Preserve to the mouth of Sucker Creek a short distance away at the south shore of Big Detroit Lake. Accessible paths, unimproved trails, marshwalks, designated trout stream, amphitheater and interpretive signs blend for restful nature learning.

Special natural features include native plant communities in wetlands, uplands and lowlands. Observant visitors may catch a glimpse of wildlife: fish, birds, amphibians, mammals, fungi and insects.

Always eager to share the gifts of its parks, the City of Detroit Lakes has launched a City-School Partnership to offer schools assistance for Greater Sucker Creek field trips.