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IMC063
AAVANG-LIND WOODLAND
- Location:
- Greenwood Township (T45N,R7E) Section 10
Size: 60 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Mesic upland forest (B)
- Dry mesic woodland (C)
- Neutral seep (B)
- Low gradient stream (B) (see MAIN BRANCH NIPPERSINK CREEK)
- Rare Plants:
- Trillium cernuum/Nodding trillium (E)
- Lathyrus ochroleucus/Pale vetchling (T)
- Cacalia suaveolens/Sweet Indian plantain (W-SC)
- Rare Animals:
- none
Other Significant Features:
- Small segment of well-buffered, meandering, gravel-bottom stream
Protection Status:
- Protected by private owners (part 20 acre dedicated nature preserve with Conservation Easement to MCCD)
- Part informally protected by private owner
- Part unprotected
Management Problems:
- Brush invasion
- Possible erosion caused by run-off from adjacent cropland
- Resprouts of cut invasive woody plants
- Exotic forb and grass invasion
- Recurrence of dense blackberry after multiple fires
- Soil erosion on steep slope
- Beaver dams
- Reed canary grass
