Minnesota Seasons - Sand Lake / Seven Beavers Preserve

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	Size
	7,465 acres

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	Park at the Greenwood Lake Public Water Access on the ease side of County Road 2. …and walk across County Road 2. Follow the winding trail southwest for ¼ mile until you come to an old winter logging road that runs northwest. This road passes through a mix of Conservancy and Superior National Forest ownership. (The patchy ownership in this area makes it a challenge to find and stay on Conservancy land.) —The Nature Conservancy Greenwood Lake Public Water Access N47 30.313, W91 39.210


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					Lake County
					Northeast Minnesota


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	Ecological Classification
	Ecological Province			Laurentian Mixed Forest Province
	Ecological Section			Northern Superior Uplands
	Ecological Subsection			Laurentian Uplands
	Land Type Association			Greenwood Lake Till Plain Isabella Moraine Seven Beavers Peatland

	Native Plant Communities*
	Alder - (Maple - Loosestrife) Swamp Alder Swamp / Forested Peatland Complex Aspen - Birch Forest: Balsam Fir Subtype Beaver Wetland Complex Black Ash - Conifer Swamp (Northeastern) Black Spruce Bog Black Spruce Bog: Semi-Treed Subtype Black Spruce Bog: Treed Subtype Forested Peatland / Upland Transition Complex Graminoid Bog: Typic Subtype Graminoid Poor Fen (Basin) Graminoid Poor Fen (Water Track): Featureless Water Track Subtype Graminoid Poor Fen (Water Track): Flark Subtype Low Shrub Bog Low Shrub Poor Fen Lowland White Cedar Forest (Northern) Northern Open Bog Northern Poor Conifer Swamp Northern Poor Fen Northern Rich Tamarack Swamp (Water Track) Northern Shrub Shore Fen Northern Wet-Mesic Boreal Hardwood-Conifer Forest Northern Wet Meadow / Carr Poor Black Spruce Swamp Poor Tamarack - Black Spruce Swamp Rich Black Spruce Swamp (Basin) Rich Tamarack - (Alder) Swamp Shrub Rich Fen (Water Track) Upland White Cedar Forest White Cedar Swamp (Northeastern) White Cedar - Yellow Birch Forest White Pine - Red Pine Forest Willow - Dogwood Shrub Swamp Young Forest Complex
	* Source: The Minnesota Biological Survey, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Ecological Resources

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