Minnesota Seasons - Wykoff Balsam Fir SNA


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	The sanctuary portion of this site is sensitive to disturbance and is closed to the public.

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	151 acres

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	Good Earth Village Office (ask permission) N43 43.255, W92 18.229


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					Fillmore County
					Southeast Minnesota


	Ecology

	Ecological Classification
	Ecological Province			Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province
	Ecological Section			Paleozoic Plateau
	Ecological Subsection			The Blufflands Rochester Plateau
	Land Type Association			Elba Slopes Stewartville Plain

	Native Plant Communities*
	Algific Talus: Limestone Subtype Black Ash - Sugar Maple - Basswood - (Blue Beech) Seepage Swamp Mesic Limestone - Dolomite Cliff (Southern) Oak - Shagbark Hickory Woodland Red Oak - White Oak - (Sugar Maple) Forest Southern Dry Cliff Southern Wet-Mesic Hardwood Forest Sugar Maple - Basswood - Red Oak - (Blue Beech) Forest White Pine - Oak - Sugar Maple Forest White Pine - Sugar Maple - Basswood Forest (Cold Slope)
	* Source: The Minnesota Biological Survey, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Ecological Resources

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	Wykoff Balsam Fir Scientific and Natural Area Brian

	About Wykoff Balsam Fir Scientific and Natural Area is located in Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota. This SNA has many unique plants, some of which grow on nearly vertical cool talus slopes (climbing on the slopes is prohibited due to their ecological fragility, though they can be viewed without climbing). Other interesting plants, such as False Mermaidweed, can be found away from the slopes.

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Two bird species with conservation status in Minnesota have been seen here:

Special Concern

Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)


Eleven plant species with conservation status in Minnesota are found here:
Endangered	Iowa golden saxifrage (Chrysosplenium iowense) purple rocket (Iodanthus pinnatifidus)
Threatened	false mermaid-weed (Floerkea proserpinacoides) glade fern (Diplazium pycnocarpon) glade mallow (Napaea dioica)
Special Concern	Goldie’s woodfern (Dryopteris goldiana) green dragon (Arisaema dracontium) northern oak fern (Gymnocarpium robertianum) silver false spleenwort (Deparia acrostichoides) Wolf’s bluegrass (Poa wolfii) yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)