Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Long Meadow Lake Unit

   

Long Meadow Lake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Area and County

 

 

 

Hennepin County

 

 

 

 

 


Size

2,400 acres

 
 
Maps

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Trail Map

 
Parking

N44 50.864 W93 14.138

 
Hiking Trails

10.6 miles


Ecological Classification

Province

Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Minnesota & NE Iowa Morainal

Subsection(s)

St. Paul-Baldwin Plains

Land Type Association(s)

Pig's Eye Alluvial Plain

 
Native Plant Communities1

Black Ash - (Red Maple) Seepage Swamp

Bulrush Marsh (Northern)

Red Oak - White Oak - (Sugar Maple) Forest

Sedge Meadow

Silver Maple - (Virginia Creeper) Floodplain Forest


Ownership

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

 
Links

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service


Comments

The Long Meadow Lake unit is the most visited of the eight units that make up the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.


Images  
  Long Meadow Lake   Long Meadow Lake        

Birds

One bird species with protected status in Minnesota has been seen here:

Threatened – King rail (Rallus elegans)

Prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea) and White-faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) have also been seen here.

The Long Meadow Lake Unit contains two birding hotspots, the Bass Ponds and Old Cedar Avenue Bridge. The best time for birders to visit is from early March to late June when migrating waterfowl and warblers rest here.

Minnesota River Valley Birding Trail

 
 

American Coot (Fulica americana)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)

Great Egret (Ardea alba)

Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca)

Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)

Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis)

American Robin

 

 

 

 

Great Egret

 

 

 

 

Sandhill Crane

 


Insects and Arachnids

 

 
  bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) bald-faced hornet Nest

Mammals

 

 
  American beaver (Castor canadensis) American beaver

Plants

 

 
 

American basswood (Tilia americana)

black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)

bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa)

Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)

Canada lettuce (Lactuca canadensis)

Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense)

Canada wildrye (Elymus canadensis)

common burdock (Arctium minus)

common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis)

common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

common mullein (Verbascum thapsus)

common yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

crown vetch (Securigera varia)

curly dock (Rumex crispus)

eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana)

eastern wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus)

gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)

green foxtail (Setaria viridis)

hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana)

narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia)

narrow-leaved purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia var. angustifolia)

northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)

northern red oak (Quercus rubra)

Norway spruce (Picea abies)

plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. molinifera)

prickly rose (Rosa acicularis ssp. sayi)

quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

prairie rose (Rosa arkansana)

red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea ssp. sericea)

red pine (Pinus resinosa)

silky dogwood (Cornus obliqua)

smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)

stinging nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis)

swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata ssp. incarnata)

velvet-leaf (Abutilon theophrasti)

Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum)

white campion (Silene latifolia ssp. alba)

white mulberry (Morus alba)

wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

wild oat (Avena fatua)

zigzag goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)

black-eyed susan

 

 

 

 

bur oak

 

 

 

 

common evening primrose

 

 

 

 

common yarrow

 

 

 

 

eastern wahoo

 

 

 

 

gray dogwood

 

 

 

 

narrow-leaved purple coneflower

 

 

 

 

prairie rose

 

 

 

 

Velvetleaf

 

 

 

 

wild ginger

 

 

 

 

zigzag goldenrod

 


Visits

11/3/2005

   
               

 

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