Power of teamwork
Crow Wing Power helps CLC install osprey nest
Crow Wing Power has donated a 40-foot utility pole to assist Central Lakes College natural resources students with an osprey nest site on the Brainerd campus.
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Two Crow Wing Power employees aligned the 40-foot pole at Central Lakes College, topped by an osprey nest platform supplied by CLC.
The students constructed a three-foot-square platform with dead branches on the south side of Mississippi Parkway overlooking the river. Next spring the site should be an inviting nest site for the osprey, according to Pam Perry, nongame specialist with the DNR.
A Web camera that may be located on an adjacent pole could provide live viewing of a new brood, according to instructors Gary Carson and Bill Faber at CLC. They were joined by students Beth Walters, Brandee Stomberg, Sean Berens, Josh Norenberg and Billy Olmsted at the installation on a sandy hillside amid mostly dead jack pines.
Crow Wing Power donated and installed an old utility pole for an osprey nest platform at Central Lakes College in Brainerd. Natural resources students hope to monitor nest activity via a Web camera near the nest.
Using old utility poles, the power company has set up dozens of nest sites around the region. This is the first nest site to be located along the Mississippi River in Brainerd.