It’s a stunning property, state officials and others say – a matrix of lakes, woods (including oak savannah), wetlands, and rolling prairie grasslands.
If he had known that nearly 2,000 acres of the Washington County cattle ranch he established in 1958 would be converted to a state wildlife management area, James E. Kelley would have been pleased. Or so it would seem. Kelley, who died in 1989 at age 93, was a prominent Twin Cities attorney, businessman and sportsman who won the state trapshooting championship in 1937, breaking 199 out of 200 .