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Manitoba MINNESOTA 1 CANADA SCIENTIFIC AND 1 Lake of the ^ Woods ^Sprague Creek Pine Creek Peatland Peatland NATURAL

Roseau (! ^ Pine & Curry Island (! Hallock Lake Bronson Ontario Parkland Winter Road AREAS KITTSON ^ ROSEAU Lake Peatland ^ (! ^ Luxemberg ^ Baudette Peatland Two Rivers ^ LAKE OF THE WOODS Aspen International Falls Prairie Norris Camp Peatland (! 2 Watrous West Rat Root Natural places worth knowing 2 Parkland 59 ^ ^ ^ North Black Island^ River Peatland Mulligan Lake Gustafson's Camp River ^ ^ Peatland Peatland East Rat Root River 53 Peatland MARSHALL ^ Natural areas are exceptional places 75 South Black where native plants and animals flourish; River where rare species are protected; ^ Peatland (! Warren Red Lake Peatland KOOCHICHING and where we can know, and study, Minnesota’s fascinating natural features.

(! Thief River Falls Upper Red Lake ^ 71 Big PENNINGTON Lost River Peatland Myrtle Lake Island Peatland ^ ^ ^ Nett Lake Peatland Caldwell Brook COOK 3 Lower Red Lake Cedar Swamp Burntside 3 Red Islands Hovland Woods Lake (! ^ Potato ^ ^ (! Ely ^Spring Beauty Northern Hardwoods Falls RED LAKE Lake ^ Myhr Creek Ridge^ Malmberg ^Kawishiwi Pines (! Crookston ^ BELTRAMI Lost Lake^ ^^ Prairie Gully Fen Eagles' Nest ^ Peatland Purvis Lake-Ober (! 2 ^Lost 40 Island No. 4 Foundation ^ Grand Marais POLK ^ ^ Lutsen Pembina 53 Butterwort Cliffs Ladies ^ Trail LAKE Little ^ Tresses Too Much Swamp CLEARWATER Lake Agassiz Dunes Bagley ST. LOUIS ^ Sand Lake Peatland ^ (! 75 Pennington Bog ^ ITASCA (! ^ 169 ^Sugarloaf Point Prairie Smoke 59 Bemidji Dunes ^ Santee Prairie Wabu Woods NORMAN La Salle Lake ^ MAHNOMEN 2 ! Ada (! ^ ^Botany Bog Lake Superior 4 ( Mahnomen 4 Dakota North ^Hole in the Bog Sandpiper Prairie^ Iron Springs Bog ^ Peatland Twin Valley Prairie^ ^Frenchman's Bluff ^ ^ (! Grand Rapids Itasca Chisholm Point Island Wilderness ^ Leech ^ Iona's Beach Lake ^ Sanctuary HUBBARD Lester Boltuck-Rice 71 (! Walker ^ Lake Forever Wild Felton 169 Prairie ^ Wawina Peatland (! ^ CASS Two Harbors BECKER Greenwater Moorhead CLAY (! Moose Lake 53 P Park Rapids Mountain ^ 10 Badoura ^Jack Pine ^ Bluestem (! Detroit Lakes 2 Prairie Blanket Woodland Flower Duluth !P Minnesota Point 5 Prairie^ Pine Forest 5 75 ^ Carlton Richard M. & Mathilde (! ^ AITKIN Rice Elliot ^ Hemlock WADENA Ravine Wisconsin Michigan ^ ^McGregor CARLTON Aitkin Marsh Western Prairie 59 (! 35 CROW WING 94 Use grid letter and number code below to find Scientific and Natural Areas on the map. OTTER TAIL (! Wadena Agassiz Dunes B4 Lundblad Prairie B10 WILKIN Black Antelope Valley B8 Lutsen I3 (! Brainerd Lake^ ^ Avon Hills Forest D7 Luxemberg Peatland C2 Fergus Falls Scientific and Natural Area (! Breckenridge (! Badoura Jack Pine Woodland D5 Malmberg Prairie A3 10 Bog Mille Lacs Moraine ^ Bald Eagle Bluff G9 Mary Schmidt Crawford Woods E8 Lake Ecological Provinces of Minnesota Big Island F3 McGregor Marsh F5 Mille Lacs ^ 71 Black Lake Bog G6 Mille Lacs Moraine E6 169 Otter Tail Prairie ^ Eastern Broadleaf Forest Blaine Airport Rich Fen F8 Minnesota Point Pine Forest G5 6 Lake ^ PINE Blaine Preserve F8 Mississippi River Islands E7 6 Alexander Ripley Esker Laurentian Mixed Forest Blanket Flower Prairie B5 Moose Mountain G5 ^Egret Island TODD Woods Blue Devil Valley C8 Morton Outcrops C9 Elbow Lake Kettle River (! ^ Bluestem Prairie B5 Mound Prairie H10 Long Prairie MORRISON Prairie Parkland Boltuck-Rice Forever Wild E4 Mound Spring Prairie B8 (! Little Falls(! GRANT Bonanza Prairie A7 Mulligan Lake Peatland C2 DOUGLAS MILLE LACS KANABEC Tallgrass Aspen Parkland Boot Lake F7 Myhr Creek Ridge I3 Alexandria (! Botany Bog E4 Myrtle Lake Peatland E3 (! Wheaton Brownsville Bluff H10 Nett Lake Peatland F3 (! Verlyn Marth Mora (! Bruce Hitman Heron Rookery C7 Norris Camp Peatland C2 TRAVERSE Memorial Prairie Pine City Burntside Islands G3 North Black River Peatland E2 75 ^ Milaca (! Miles 0 10 20 30 40 Butternut Valley Prairie D9 North Fork Zumbro Woods F4 94 Englund Ecotone Butterwort Cliffs I3 Oronoco Prairie G9 59 St. Wendel Glenwood ^ BENTON Caldwell Brook Cedar Swamp E3 Osmundson Prairie E10 (! Tamarack Bog (! Rush Lake^ Foley Cannon River Trout Lily F9 Otter Tail Prairie B6 STEVENS ^ (! Morris ^ Island Cannon River Turtle Preserve F9 Partch Woods D7 POPE Avon Hills STEARNS Partch Woods Cedar Mountain D9 Pembina Trail B3 Forest ^ P ISANTI (! Bruce Hitman ^ St. Cloud Cambridge Cedar Rock C8 Pennington Bog D4 Bonanza ^ ^Rice Lake Savanna CHISAGO ^ ^Clinton Prairie Heron Rookery Sedan Quarry Park ^ Chamberlain Woods E9 Pigs Eye Island Heron Rookery F8 7 Prairie Brook Roscoe 7 BIG STONE ^ ^ Harry W. Cater Homestead Prairie Twin Lakes Cherry Grove Blind Valley G10 Pin Oak Prairie G10 Prairie Prairie ^ ^ ^ Cold Spring ^ Uncas Dunes Chimney Rock F8 Pine and Curry Island D2 Clear Lake Center City Chisholm Point Island E4 Pine Bend Bluffs F8 Langhei Prairie Heron Colony ^ 169 35 (! SHERBURNE ^ Clear Lake E7 Pine Creek Peatland C1 (! Ortonville ^^Lawrence Creek (! 10 Helen Allison Savanna 12 Benson ^ Franconia Bluffs Clinton Falls Dwarf Trout Lily F9 Potato Lake E3 (! Elk River Clinton Prairie B7 Prairie Bush Clover C10 SWIFT 71 ^ Boot Lake Mississippi ANOKA ^^Falls Creek Cold Spring Heron Colony D7 Prairie Coteau B9 Crystal Spring Compass Prairie B10 Prairie Creek Woods F9 River Islands Anoka WRIGHT (! Blaine Airport Cottonwood River Prairie C9 Prairie Smoke Dunes B4 KANDIYOHI (! 12 Buffalo ^ Rich Fen Crystal Spring F7 Purvis Lake-Ober Foundation G3 Litchfield 94 (! Willmar (! Mary Schmidt ^^ WASHINGTON Des Moines River C10 Quarry Park D7 ^ Yellow Bank Hills Crawford Woods Blaine Preserve Eagles Nest Island No. 4 G3 Racine Prairie G10 Madison MEEKER (! 12 (! Stillwater Scientific and Natural Area Program East Rat Root River Peatland F2 Red Lake Peatland D3 CHIPPEWA 500 Lafayette Road LAC QUI PARLE Wolsfeld Woods RAMSEY Egret Island C6 Rice Lake Savanna E7 Montevideo ^ Minneapolis ^St. Croix Savanna St. Paul, MN 55155-4025 212 P Englund Ecotone D7 Richard M. and Mathilde Rice Elliot B5 (! ^ St. Paul Wood-Rill P 888-646-6367 or 651-259-5088 Falls Creek F7 Ripley Esker D6 HENNEPIN [email protected] Felton Prairie B4 River Terrace Prairie F9 8 59 ^Pig's Eye Island Franconia Bluffs F7 River Warren Outcrops C8 8 Heron Rookery www.mndnr.gov/sna Granite Falls (! Frenchman's Bluff B4 Rock Ridge Prairie C9 ^Blue Devil Valley MCLEOD Seminary Fen 10 ^Mound 75 Olivia ^ Shakopee Glynn Prairie C9 Roscoe Prairie D7 ^Gneiss Outcrops (! Glencoe Chaska (! (! ^ ^ ^Lost Valley Prairie Spring 212 (! 212 Pine Gneiss Outcrops C8 Rush Lake Island F7 YELLOW MEDICINE ^ Grey Hastings Prairie RENVILLE CARVER Bend (! Greenwater Lake C5 Rushford Sand Barrens F7 ^ Savage Fen Cloud ^Hastings Antelope Valley Swedes Forest ^ Bluffs ^Hastings Sand Coulee Grey Cloud Dunes F8 Sand Lake Peatland G4 Dunes Gully Fen C3 Sandpiper Prairie B4 ^River Warren Outcrops 169 SCOTT DAKOTA 52 ^ Cedar Rock ^ Gustafson's Camp D2 Santee Prairie B4 Chimney Rock Harry W. Cater Homestead Prairie E7 Savage Fen E8 Morton Outcrops SIBLEY 61 Red Wing Redwood Falls Hastings F8 Sedan Brook Prairie C7 (! ^ (! Gaylord Cannon River Turtle Preserve^ ^ (! Ivanhoe ^ Hastings Sand Coulee F8 Seminary Fen E8 (! ^Cedar Mountain Spring Creek Marshall River Terrace Helen Allison Savanna F7 Shooting Star Prairie F10 (! Prairie Hemlock Ravine G5 South Black River Peatland E2 LINCOLN LE SUEUR Prairie Prairie Chamberlain Creek Hole in the Bog Peatland D4 Sprague Creek Peatland C1

South Dakota South Dakota REDWOOD ^ LYON ^ (! Bald Eagle !Wabasha Holthe Prairie C10 Spring Beauty Northern Hardwoods I3 NICOLLET Woods RICE Woods GOODHUE ( 71 Le Center Bluff Hovland Woods I3 Spring Creek Prairie F9 St. Peter ^ 63 BROWN 14 (! (! ^ Hythecker Prairie F4 St. Croix Savanna F8 Glynn Prairie New Ulm Whitney Island Cannon River Kellogg­ ^ ^ (! ^ Iona's Beach H4 St. Wendel Tamarack Bog D7 9 14 Faribault Trout Lily WABASHA ^Weaver 9 Joseph A. Tauer ^Kasota Prairie North Fork ^ Iron Horse Prairie F10 Sugarloaf Point H4 Cottonwood Prairie ^ Dunes ^ Zumbro Woods Zumbro Iron Springs Bog C4 Swedes Forest C8 River Prairie ^ Townsend Woods Falls Itasca Wilderness Sanctuary C4 Townsend Woods C9 P Oronoco ^Prairie Coteau Woods Rock ^ Mankato Clinton Falls^ Prairie^ Joseph A. Tauer Prairie D9 Twin Lakes F7 DODGE Kasota Prairie E9 Twin Valley Prairie B4 PIPESTONE ^Ridge Dwarf Owatonna Butternut (! (! MURRAY Prairie Waseca Trout Lily Mantorville (! Kawishiwi Pines G3 Two Rivers Aspen Parkland B2 (! Pipestone Valley 14 (! Rochester Winona King's & Kellogg Weaver Dunes G9 Uncas Dunes E7 (! Slayton COTTONWOOD St. James Prairie WASECA STEELE ^ P 14 61 (! Kettle River F6 Verlyn Marth Memorial Prairie B7 BLUE EARTH Hythecker Queen's Bluff ^ 59 35 OLMSTED WINONA ^ King's and Queen's Bluffs H10 Wabu Woods E4 WATONWAN Prairie 90 Watrous Island E2 Lundblad La Salle Lake C4 Ladies Tresses Swamp E3 Wawina Peatland F5 Prairie (! Windom 52 ^ Lake Alexander Woods D6 West Rat Root River Peatland F2 75 Iron Horse Lake Bronson Parkland B2 Western Prairie B5 ^ Des Moines River 169 Prairie ^ ^Pin Oak Prairie ^ Langhei Prairie C7 Whitney Island E9 Holthe Prairie ^ Racine Prairie ^ Lawrence Creek F7 Wild Indigo F10 ROCK Rushford ^Prairie Bush Clover FREEBORN 63 Mound Lester Lake D4 Winter Road Lake Peatland C2 MARTIN ^ ^ Sand Barrens (! Luverne NOBLES 71 Wykoff Balsam Fir Prairie Brownsville Little Too Much Lake E4 Wolsfeld Woods E8 JACKSON FARIBAULT Wild Indigo (!Preston HOUSTON ^ 90 (! 90 Albert Lea (! 10 (! Fairmont (! 90 Bluff Lost 40 E3 Wood-Rill E8 10 (! (! Blue Earth Austin (! Worthington Jackson FILLMORE Shooting Star Caledonia Lost Lake Peatland G3 Wykoff Balsam Fir G10 Compass Prairie^ MOWER Lost River Peatland D3 Yellow Bank Hills B8 Prairie ^Cherry Grove ^ Lost Valley Prairie F8 Zumbro Falls Woods G9 Osmundson Prairie^ Blind Valley Iowa A B C D E F G H I J © 2018 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources