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monitored to determine how they impact other species. Monitoring should indicate where management <br />actions need to occur to reduce the population of the invaders, <br /> <br />Development Zone <br /> <br /> A development zone in the park would connect all buildings, canoe launches, and all roads and <br />trails. <br /> <br /> Recommendation: An environmental educan'on and interpretive center shouM be developed <br /> <br /> within the park. <br /> <br /> The park is in the remnants of Itasca Village and played an important role in the settling of <br />northwestern Minnesota. A historical perspective should be worked into the parks educational system. The <br />diversity of the species contained m the park's resource management zone makes the park ideal for <br />environmental education. Displays and presentations depicting the ecological factors behind the <br />communities within the park, as well as historical factors for the city of Karnsey, would be accommodated <br />by such a facility. <br /> <br /> Soil erosion, soft compaction, vegetative sensitivity to human impact, and restoration of native <br />communities to the Anoka sand plain are all potential topics to be addressed by the park and its staff. <br />Brochures explaining the parks layout and the sensitive areas of the park could be made available to the <br />visitors at this site. <br /> <br /> One of the purposes of the park is to integrate the river community with the area of Ramsey. The <br />river should be seen and accessible from the focal points of the park. The site of the Husby house and out <br />buildings offers areas already suited to development and would reduce the amount of land impacted within <br /> <br />the park by development preparation. <br /> <br /> Recommendat~'on: All trail and road development in the park should use the proper soil erosion <br /> <br />control measures. <br /> <br /> Since the soils at Mississippi West Regional Park are generally highly erodible, management <br />efforts must take this erodibflity into account as the park is developed. If paths are located on soils that <br />have moderate or severe limitations, these areas should be constantly maintained in vegetation or possess <br />some other means of erosion control such as woodchips or gravel. The management of these areas should <br />continue after the initial development of Mississippi West Regional Park to ensure that they meet <br />estabhshed acceptable soil loss limits. It may be necessary to post signs about the erosion hazards at this <br /> <br />28 <br /> <br /> <br />