Pollinator Strong - Great River Energy
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We are
Pollinator Strong

Pollinators provide ongoing, valuable benefits to our members’ daily lives, our agriculture, our environment—and we are committed to restoring pollinator-friendly habitats in our local communities. That’s why Great River Energy is actively working to re-establish habitats across our state that pollinators like birds, bees and butterflies need to eat, live and do their work.

Investing in our future

We’ve developed more than 300 acres of pollinator-friendly land and are committed to planting and restoring an additional 300 acres of habitat by 2029. These efforts have earned us membership in the monarch candidate conservation agreement with assurances (CCAA), a voluntary program to create habitat for the monarch butterfly on rights of way and other lands.

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KEEPING THINGS BUZZING

See where we’ve been—and where we’re going.

ESTABLISHED SITES
FUTURE SITES

100+ sites across MN

300 acres restored to date

A FEW OF OUR SITES INCLUDE:

Lakefield Junction Station: 91 acres
Pleasant Valley Station: 87 acres
Becker Ash Landfill: 33 acres
Elk River campus: 12.4 acres
Riverview Substation: 7.6 acres
Cambridge Station: 7 acres
St. Bonifacius Station: 3.6 acres
McHenry Substation: 2.5 acres
New Prague Service Center: 2.5 acres
Lake Marion Substation: 2 acres
Bunker Lake Substation: 1.8 acres
Maple Grove office: 1.5 acres
St. James Service Center: 1.5 acres

Plant your own pollinator-friendly project

Planting native seeds or plants in your existing garden or space is one way you can take action in your own backyard.