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for adjacent homeowners. Planting of shrubs and forb plugs may also occur along the northern park/private landowner border for visual affect. The riverbank area require much planting, since a good diversity exists currently, but some shade-tolerant shrubs and herbaceous plugs will likely be planted there, especially along the south side of the trail (at least 5 feet from trail for mowing purposes). Maintenance Maintenance will be performed by two of the partners: Anoka County Parks and the City of Ramsey. For the old field and mowed area, maintenance mowing will be provided by Anoka Parks. For the pond, the City of Ramsey has a drainage easement for the pond, but it is owned by Anoka County, so Anoka County Parks will need to mow or burn it annually along with the rest of their space. For the riverbank area, maintenance will be performed by Anoka County Parks, but only a minimal amount is expected. Attempts will be made to engage adjacent homeowners and homeowner associations to participate in simple but essential maintenance activities like watering and hand-weeding of plugged and shrub areas during the first 2 years. Partner Responsibilities The partners of this project will be utilized for various components of the overall project. The following is a list of responsibilities for each partner: City of Ramsey · Grind out stumps around pond (spring/summer, 2009) · Provide GRG with contact information of adjacent homeowners and homeowner associations Anoka County Parks · Cut redcedars and other woody invaders from old field (leaving a few clusters of redcedar for wildlife habitat) (spring, 2009) · Grub out and/or grind out redcedar stumps in old field (spring/summer, 2009) · Perform prescribed burn (fall, 2009) (possibly in conjunction with GRG crew) . Herbicide turfgrass in mowed area (crew--Iate summer/fall, 2009) · Dormant seeding of old field and mowed area (fall, 2009) · Provide maintenance mowing (at least 6 mowings over the course of the first 2 years after installation, 2010, 2011)) of old field and mowed area (2010 through 2011) . Provide minimal maintenance of riverbank area (2009 and ongoing) . Perform prescribed burns to the area as a whole, excepting riverbank, for long term prairie vegetation management (10 years after installation, through 2019). Include pond area in prescribed burn, if possible. Great River Greening 15