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The Lee and Rose Warner Nature Center is a 700-acre (2.8 km2) outdoor school set in undeveloped woodland, marsh, lake, bog, grasslands. The site also includes a restoration prairie and savanna. There are over six miles (10 km) of trails on the property but they are not marked and are only for use by groups who have booked a program with the naturalist staff.
The center adjoins Wilder Forest and the combined area of the two organizations approaches 2,000 acres (8.1 km2).
Warner is also the western anchor for the metro greenways corridor which protects a greenway (landscape) of land for five miles (8 km) between WNC and the St. Croix River The whole corridor protects approximately 2,400 acres (9.7 km2).
Warner is home to a wild population of threatened Blanding's Turtles. In part because of their presence, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has designated the land Warner sits on as important for species in greatest conservation need and a Regionally Significant Ecological Area with a level 3 designation, the highest possible, .
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