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Big
Woods, MN
This area to the west of the Twin Cities featured 3,000
square miles of red oak, white oak, sugar maple, basswood
and elm forest prior to settlement by Europeans. About 1%
of this forest remains in several parks and natural areas.
Chippewa
National Forest, MN
Studies of the leading edges of earthworm invasion by Cindy
Hale and landscape-scale patterns of invasion by Andy Holdsworth
take place in sugar maple-dominated forests.
Door
Peninsula, WI
This 70-mile long peninsula in Lake Michigan is well known
for its mixture of northern hardwood and boreal forests,
unusual plant communities, occurrence of rare and endemic
plants, and 250 mile shoreline with sand dunes and dolomite
bluffs.
North
Shore, MN
Located on Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior,
this landscape is the subject of Nature Conservancy’s
Manitou Initiative, and the location of CFHE’s research
on multi-aged forest management.
Porcupine
Mountains, MI
Located on the shore of Lake Superior in western Upper Michigan,
this park has 35,000 acres of unlogged sugar maple and hemlock
forest, and has been a focus of Lee Frelich’s Research
in disturbance ecology since 1981. Forests in all stages
of succession and stand development are present in one of
the few landscape-scale forest remnants left in the eastern
U.S.
Sylvania,
MI
This federally-owned wilderness in Ottawa National Forest,
was designated by congress and signed into law by President
Ronald Reagan in 1984. It features 15,000 acres of unlogged
hemlock and sugar maple forest with system of small lakes.
Much of the research on long-term dynamics of sugar maple
and hemlock patches has taken place here. |
