Minnesota Seasons - Townsend Woods SNA


Townsend Woods SNA

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			Rice County




Size	73 acres

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Parking	N44 14.694 W93 31.475

Hiking Trails	None

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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Birds

	American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

Mammals

	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) bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis) bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) common blue violet (Viola sororia) common burdock (Arctium minus) common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale ssp. officinale) cut-leaved toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) drooping trillium (Trillium flexipes) Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) eastern false rue anemone (Enemion biternatum) ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) kidney-leaved buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus) large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) northern red oak (Quercus rubra) sharp-lobed hepatica (Anemone acutiloba) smooth yellow violet (Viola pubescens var. scabriuscula) sugar maple (Acer saccharum ssp. saccharum) Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum var. virginianum) white trout lily (Erythronium albidum) wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii) wild ginger (Asarum canadense) wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia var. quinquefolia) woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca ssp. americana)

Visits	5/6/2005