Minnesota Seasons - Hardscrabble Woods/MG Tusler Sanctuary


Hardscrabble Woods/MG Tusler Sanctuary

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			Hennepin County




Size	31 acres

Maps	Map with GPS coordinates

Parking	N44 54.860 W93 40.681 Park on the shoulder.

Hiking Trails	West of the road a short trail leads from the memorial stone, around a pond, to a residential area south of the preserve. There are no other trails.

Hunting	No hunting.

Ecological Classification	Province	Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province
	Section	Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal
	Subsection(s)	Big Woods
	Land Type Association(s)	Maple Plain Moraine

Native Plant Communities¹	Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods)

Ownership	The Nature Conservancy

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Comments	The larger section, east of the road, has a very dense canopy that extends beyond the road (Hardscrabble Circle) that surrounds the site. In this section there are no open areas and little edge habitat, resulting in sparse herb layer growth and almost no shrub layer growth.

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Birds

	American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) American Robin (Turdus migratorius) Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Mammals

	whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Plants	University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant List Plants frequently found in: Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods) MHs39c

	American basswood (Tilia americana) American hazel (Corylus americana) American hog peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata var. bracteata) black medick (Medicago lupulina) bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) broad-leaved arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia) broad-leaved cattail (Typha latifolia) bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa) Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense) Canadian woodnettle (Laportea canadensis) chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana) cleavers (Galium aparine) common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale) common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) common mullein (Verbascum thapsus) common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) early figwort (Scrophularia lanceolata) early meadow rue (Thalictrum dioicum) eastern bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix) eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) field pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta) field thistle (Cirsium discolor) fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum) garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus) green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) ironwood (Ostrya virginiana var. virginiana) Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) Morrow’s honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii) northern bedstraw (Galium boreale) northern lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina ssp. angustum) northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum) northern red oak (Quercus rubra) pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera) pointed-leaved tick-trefoil (Desmodium glutinosum) quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis) sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba) starry false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum stellatum) stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis) sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum) Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum) western poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii) white avens (Geum canadense var. canadense) white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima var. altissima) wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) wild ginger (Asarum canadense) wild grape (Vitis riparia) wild leek (Allium tricoccum) wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis) woodbine (Parthenocissus vitacea) yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis)

Visits	7/8/2011