Hennepin County

31 acres

Map with GPS coordinates

N44 54.860, W93 40.681

Park on the shoulder.

West of the road a short trail leads from the memorial stone, around a pond, to a residential area south of the preserve. There are no other trails.

No hunting

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

Big Woods

Land Type Association(s)

Maple Plain Moraine

The larger section, east of the road, has a very dense canopy that extends beyond the road (Hardscrabble Circle) that surrounds the site. In this section there are no open areas and little edge habitat, resulting in sparse herb layer growth and almost no shrub layer growth.

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University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant List

Plants frequently found in:

Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods) MHs39c