Washington County

322 acres

Map with GPS coordinates

N44 47.835, W92 49.461

None

No hunting

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

St. Paul-Baldwin Plains

Land Type Association(s)

Minnesota DNR

Restoration activities in 2006 included pulling knapweed and thistle, collecting seeds, and planting little bluestem.

In 2010 over half of this SNA was actively farmed.

In 2011 the DNR added 122 acres to this SNA.

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Minnesota DNR Bird checklist

Five plant species with protected status in Minnesota and one tracked species are found here:

Threatened – kitten-tails (Veronica bullii), blunt-lobed grapefern (Botrychium oneidense), rock sandwort (Minuartia dawsonensis)

Special concern – St. Lawrence grapefern (Botrychium rugulosum), Hill’s thistle (Cirsium pumilum var. hillii)

Tracked – Virginia bugleweed (Lycopus virginicus)

University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant List

Plants frequently found in:

Dry Bedrock Bluff Prairie (Southern) UPs13c