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Maplewood State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, near Pelican Rapids.The park preserves a pre-contact habitation site that was occupied in two different periods (650–900 CE and 1450–1650 CE) in a forest/prairie transition zone.
The dominant trees are American elm, basswood, sugar maple, and red oak. The understory is composed of ironwood, green ash, and aspen. The Big Woods would have once covered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2) in a diagonal strip 100 miles (160 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide. Today most of this region has been cleared for agriculture and urban ...
The Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest is a 1,016,204 acres (4,112.43 km 2) reserve of current and former forest in Minnesota's Driftless Area. Only 45,000 acres (180 km 2 ) of the land is state owned, with the remainder owned by private individuals and community groups, governed by easements.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' Division of Forestry had been buying up lots in the region since 1962 for what was to become the Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest. Legislation in 1971 transferred 1,073 acres (434 ha) from the forestry division to the parks division, and O. L. Kipp State Park finally came into being.
Silvics of North America (1991), [2] [3] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many hardwood trees. [ a ] It superseded Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States (1965), which was the first extensive American tree inventory. [ 6 ]
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Minnesota is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1 ...
“I have never seen so many in one area.”
The North Central Hardwood Forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion (no. 51 in the EPA Level III ecoregions of the United States) in central Minnesota, [1] central Wisconsin, [2] and northwestern Lower Michigan, [3] embedded between (clockwise) the Western Corn Belt Plains in the south, the Northern Glaciated Plains, the Red River Valley, the Northern Minnesota Wetlands ...