Stats for the State of Minnesota Certified Signature Sanctuaries: 1 Featured Signature Courses: Legacy Courses at Cragun’s

Legacy Courses at Cragun’s                                               
Located in central Minnesota’s Brainerd Lakes Areas in the heart of the Northern Great Lakes ecological region, the 45 hole Robert Trent Jones II-designed golf course sit gently on 320 acres in a second growth hardwood forest dominated by white and red oak, Norway pine, aspen, paper birch, and spruce.  Once part of a vast old-growth forest that stretched from the Dakotas to the Atlantic coast, the property includes as its predominant water feature, Stephen’s Lake, a spring-fed water body which covers 103 acres and has 40 acres of wetlands located along its north and southwest edges.  Twenty-three acres of prairie were restored with side oats grama, blue grama, Kalm's brome, and prairie dropseed.  A wildflower meadow of yarrow, New England aster, joe-pye weed, and ironweed was also established.  Wildlife seen on the property include whitetail deer, eastern grey squirrel, bats, porcupine, gray wolf, and Blanding’s turtle, a state threatened species.   For more information on the first Certified Audubon Signature  Sanctuary in Minnesota go to www.craguns.com