Polar explorer Will Steger talks about Upper Manitou Forest Preserve

At the beginning of November, The Nature Conservancy purchased 240 acres of old growth forest near the George H. Crosby Manitou State Park from Polar explorer Will Steger.
 
Jim Manolis, the Conservancy’s forest conservation program director in Minnesota, was impressed when he first saw the property. “I’ve visited a lot of old growth around the state. We don’t have much and this is some of the best.”
 
For more information about the Upper Manitou Forest Preserve, visit nature.org/Minnesota.

Photo courtesy of Minnesota State Parks
 
WTIP’s Rhonda Silence talked to Steger about parting with the property.