You can see in front of us another residence hall, called Ytterboe Hall. This is actually the second incarnation of Ytterboe Hall. Its name was changed from Manitou Hall in 1997 after the old Ytterboe was torn down. The date stone with the college seal was moved from the old building and placed here, where it still sits on the wall today. Behind the building and down the hill are the St. Olaf Natural Lands — 350 acres of woods, prairies, wetlands, and trails adjacent to campus that the college has spent more than three decades restoring to recreate ecosystems that were once common in southern Minnesota. Through research and conservation work in the Natural Lands, faculty and students work together on sustainable practices that can be shared with the wider community.