A plan for the proposed park from 2009. Click image for a larger view.
Bristol is applying for a grant to help restore land at the Bristol Bay Passive Park to the oak savanna that was in the area before settlement.
The park, which is still under development, is located at approximately the southeast corner of Highways 45 and 50. This will be a passive or conservation park, designed to eventually reflect the oak savanna and prairie landscape that was once there, village administrator Randy Kerkman said.
The Urban Forestry Grant and Urban Forestry Catastrophic Storm Grant totals $66,829, with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources contributing $25,000 and the village $43,629, according to the village’s grant application. Bristol plans to use the grant, if received, for reforesting with native species, maintenance and trails.
In the Bristol Bay Passive Park the village will be seeking to remove all invasive species or vegetation from the site and replace with native plantings that once grew at the location.
The village received a DNR grant for trail development in the park earlier this year. That grant was for $99,000, with Bristol and the state each contributing 50 percent.
Plans call for tow looped trails and access to an small island in a wetland area, Kerkman explained.
Work on the trails may begin later this year, Kerkman said.
