Chamberlain Woods
Scientific and Natural Area

Chamberlain Woods SNA
       
County

Le Sueur

  Le Sueur County
GPS

N44 23.928
W93 56.654

 
Size

254 acres

 
Habitat

Oak savanna, floodplain forest

Hiking Trails

 


Links

Minnesota DNR


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Birds

Two bird species with protected status in Minnesota are found here:

Special concern – Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens), bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

A pair of bald eagles nested here in the spring of 2005.

 
 

American robin (Turdus migratorius)

bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

northern cardinal
     

Mammals

 

 
 

whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

 
     

Plants

Plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera), American basswood (Tilia americana), and American elm (Ulmus americana) dominate the floodplain forest.

Minnesota DNR Plant List

 
 

bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

common blue violet (Viola sororia)

common burdock (Arctium minus)

common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale)

plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera)

cut-leaved toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)

Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)

ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)

smooth yellow violet (Viola pubescens var. scabriuscula)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

white trout lily (Erythronium albidum)

wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii)

wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

common burdock

 

 

 

 

 

wild ginger

     
               

 

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