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Crex Meadows is included in the Northwest Wisconsin pine barrens. These “barrens” are a large, sandy plain that was left as the glacier withdrew from the area around 13,000 years ago. Crex is located in the southern area of the barrens and contains huge marshes.
Moquah Barrens Research Natural Area is a 636-acre (257 ha) area of pine barrens in Bayfield County, Wisconsin. [1] It is located within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest . [ 2 ] The area was designated a Wisconsin State Natural Area in 1970 and a National Natural Landmark in 1980.
Pine barrens, pine plains, sand plains, or pineland areas occur throughout the U.S. from Florida to Maine (see Atlantic coastal pine barrens) as well as the Midwest, West, and Canada and parts of Eurasia. Perhaps the most well known pine-barrens area to North Americans is the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Pine barrens are generally pine forests in ...
Dunnville Barrens is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-designated State Natural Area featuring a jack pine barrens plant community on a wide, sandy Chippewa River terrace. Open areas in the barrens contain scattered shrubs, such as beaked hazelnut , with a groundlayer composed of dry sand prairie species, including little bluestem ...
50k - Wisconsin/Michigan Pine and Oak Barrens; 50l - Menominee Ground Moraine; 51 North Central Hardwood Forests. 51a - St. Croix Stagnation Moraines; 51b - Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain; 51c - Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain; 51d - Central Sand Ridges; 51e - Upper Wolf River Stagnation Moraine; 51f - Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain
The St. Croix Wetland Management District in west-central Wisconsin, United States, encompasses a diversity of habitats lying along the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairie. Within the eight-county district, one can travel north through the high river bluffs of Pepin County , to the prairie potholes of St. Croix County , and then to the pine ...
The following is a list of pine barrens. Canada. Kaladar Jack Pine Barrens in Ontario; ... Wisconsin. Great Lakes Barrens; Moquah Barrens Research Natural Area;
The Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ w ɑː m ɪ ɡ ən ˌ n ɪ k ə ˈ l eɪ /; the q is silent) [3] is a 1,530,647-acre (6,194.31 km 2) U.S. National Forest in northern Wisconsin in the United States.