Pembina Trail Preserve SNA
Pembina Trail Unit

   

Pembina Trail Preserve SNA, Pembina Trail Unit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Area and County

 

 

 

Polk County

 

 

 

 

 


Size

560 acres

Printable map
 
Maps

Map with GPS coordinates

 
Parking

N47 42.112, W96 21.384

 
Hiking Trails

None

 
Hunting

No hunting.


Ecological Classification

Province

Tallgrass Aspen Parklands

Ecological Classification

Section

Lake Agassiz, Aspen Parklands

Subsection(s)

Aspen Parklands

Land Type Association(s)

Beach Ridges

Gentilly Lake Plain

 
Native Plant Communities1

Agassiz Interbeach Prairie Complex

Bulrush Marsh (Prairie)

Calcareous Fen (Northwestern)

Mesic Prairie (Northern)

Northwestern Mesic Aspen-Oak Woodland

Northwestern Wet-Mesic Aspen Woodland

Seepage Meadow/Carr

Wet Brush-Prairie (Northern)

Wet Prairie (Northern)


Ownership

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

The Nature Conservancy

 
Links

Minnesota DNR

The Nature Conservancy

Pembina Trail Preserve SNA


Comments

Parking
Park on a field access on the south side of County Road 45 (320th St. SW) at the location shown above (Parking).


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Birds

Minnesota DNR Bird checkist

Pine to Prairie Birding Trail

 
 

Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis)

Sandhill Crane

Insects and Arachnids

 

 
  tawny-edged skipper (Polites themistocles) tawny-edged skipper

Plants

Minnesota DNR Plant List

University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant List


Plants frequently found in:

Bulrush Marsh (Prairie) MRp93a

Calcareous Fen (Northwestern) OPp93a

Mesic Prairie (Northern) UPn23b

Northwestern Mesic Aspen-Oak Woodland FDw34

Northwestern Wet-Mesic Aspen Woodland FDw44

Seepage Meadow/Carr WMs83a1

Wet Brush-Prairie (Northern) WPn53b

Wet Prairie (Northern) WPn53b

 
 

big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)

blue giant hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)

curly dock (Rumex crispus)

foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum ssp. jubatum)

prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya var. pycnostachya)

purple prairie clover (Dalea purpurea var. purpurea)

showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)

yellow sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis)

foxtail barley

 

 

 

 

showy milkweed

 


Visits

7/31/2004

8/16/2011

   
               

 

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