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Hardwood from North American trees has a variety of commercial uses, including in furniture, carpentry, tools and musical instruments. Some timber is milled for plywood , wood veneer and construction framing , including structural support beams and studs .
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 ...
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.
List of Minnesota trees by scientific name This page was last edited on 18 April 2022, at 03:55 (UTC). Text is available ...
The forest was established in 1961 in celebration of the "golden anniversary" (50 years) of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources's Division of Forestry. Grand Portage: Cook: 99,200 acres (401 km 2) Established in 1933, in extreme northeastern Minnesota.
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Bead-tree, white cedar, Persian lilac (Melia azedarach) Maple (Acer) Hard maple Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) Black maple (Acer nigrum) Soft maple Boxelder (Acer negundo) Red maple (Acer rubrum) Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) European maple Sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) Marblewood (Marmaroxylon racemosum) Marri, red gum (Corymbia calophylla)