Classification

• Province: Laurentian Mixed Forest
  • Section: Northern Superior Uplands
    • Subsection: Border Lakes
• System: Fire Dependent Woodland

Description:

• The Alder/Willow Wetland, about 2.5% of the BWCAW by surface area
• Slow moving subsurface water with dense, nearly impenetrable cover of tall shrubs
• Signature Species
• Speckled Alder, Alnus incana
• Willows, Salix spp.

Indicator
Species:

Trees

• White Pine, Pinus strobus
• Red Pine, Pinus resinosa
• Balsam Fir, Abies balsamea
• Paper Birch, Betula papyrifera
• Quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides
• White Spruce, Picea glauca
• Black Spruce, Picea mariana
• Jack Pine, Pinus banksiana
• Red Maple, Acer rubrum

Shrubs

• Moose Maple, Acer spicatum
• Juneberries, Amelanchier spp.
• Beaked Hazel, Corylus cornuta
• Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis
• Low Bush Honeysuckle, Diervilla lonicera
• Twinflower, Linnaea borealis
• Fly Honeysuckle, Lonicera canadensis
• Dewberry, Rubus flagellaris
• Late Low Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium

Herbs

• Wild Sarsaparilla, Aralia nudicaulis
• Large Leaf Aster, Aster macrophyllus
• Canada Mayflower, Maianthemum canadense
• Bracken Fern, Pteridium aquilinum
• Grasses and Sedges

Landform & Topography:

Soils & Hydrology:

Identification:

• Signature Species
  • White Pine, Pinus strobus
• Red Pine, Pinus resinosa

• Hermit Thrush, Catharus guttatus
• Yellow Rumped Warbler, Dendroica coronata
• Black Throated Green Warbler, Dendroica virens
• Blackburnian Warbler, Dendroica fusca
• Pine Warbler, Dendroica pinus
• Black and White Warbler, Mniotilta varia
• White Throated Sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis
• Dark Eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis
• Red Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
• White Winged Crossbill, Loxia leucoptera
• Evening Grosbeak, Hesperiphona vespertina
• Pine Siskin, Carduelis pinus
• Pine Grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator

Natural
History

• History

Other
Communities:

Last updated on 30 June, 2004