Minnesota Seasons - Townsend Woods SNA


Townsend Woods SNA

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			Rice County




Size	73 acres

Maps	Map with GPS coordinates

Parking	N44 14.694, W93 31.475

Hiking Trails	None

Hunting	No hunting.

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

Native Plant Communities¹	Northern Mixed Cattail Marsh Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods) Willow - Dogwood Shrub Swamp

Ownership	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Links	Minnesota DNR

Comments	There is a ½ mile walking corridor from the parking area to the site.

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Amphibians

	boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata)

Birds

	American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) American Robin (Turdus migratorius) Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) Lincoln’s Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)

Fungi

	Black Knot (Apiosporina morbosa)

Insects and Arachnids

	goldenrod bunch gall midge (Rhopalomyia solidaginis) goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis)

Mammals

	American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Plants	Minnesota DNR Plant List Plants frequently found in: Northern Mixed Cattail Marsh MRn83 Sugar Maple Forest (Big Woods) MHs39c Willow - Dogwood Shrub Swamp WMn82a

	American basswood (Tilia americana) American cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum) American plum (Prunus americana) bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis) bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) boxelder (Acer negundo var. negundo) bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa var. macrocarpa) chokecherry (Prunus virginiana var. virginiana) common blue violet (Viola sororia) common burdock (Arctium minus) common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale) common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) common motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) cut-leaved toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) drooping trillium (Trillium flexipes) Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) eastern false rue anemone (Enemion biternatum) eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) green carpetweed (Mollugo verticillata) ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) ironwood (Ostrya virginiana var. virginiana) kidney-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus) large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) late goldenrod (Solidago altissima) musk thistle (Carduus nutans) northern hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum) northern red oak (Quercus rubra) pussy willow (Salix discolor) red clover (Trifolium pratense) red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea ssp. sericea) reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba) slippery elm (Ulmus rubra) smooth yellow violet (Viola pubescens var. scabriuscula) staghorn sumac (Rhus hirta) sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum) velvet-leaf (Abutilon theophrasti) Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum) white trout lily (Erythronium albidum) wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii) wild ginger (Asarum canadense) wild grape (Vitis riparia) wild leek (Allium tricoccum) wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia var. quinquefolia) woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca ssp. americana) yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)

Visits	5/6/2005 3/24/2012