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Northern Research Station
11 Campus Blvd., Suite 200
Newtown Square, PA 19073
(610) 557-4017
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Established Research Natural Areas
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Illinois | Indiana | Michigan | Minnesota | New Hampshire | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Vermont | Wisconsin
| State | Forest | RNA Name | Date | Size (acres) |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | Shawnee (5,384 acres) |
Atwood Ridge | 1990 | 955 | Dry, mesic forest; barrens; hill prairies |
| Barker Bluff | 1990 | 60 | Glade and glade / forest complex; escarpment | ||
| Burke Branch | 1991 | 206 | Dry to mesic oaks; mesic barrens; juncture of Mississippi Embayment/Shawnee Hills | ||
| Cave Hill | 1990 | 465 | Xeric to dry-mesic oak forests; barrens; sandstone glades, cliffs; aquatic and terrestrial cave habitat | ||
| Dennison Hollow | 1989 | 205 | Xeric and dry oak forests; barrens; sandstone glades, cliffs | ||
| LaRue-Pine Hills/Otter Pond | 1991 | 2585 | 14 natural communities (bottomland forest; ponds; swamps; bluffs; upland forests) | ||
| Ozark Hill Prairie | 1991 | 535 | Bluff ridge; hill prairie; dry, dry-mesic oaks; beech-maples, sassafras-persimmon forests | ||
| Panther Hollow | 1989 | 180 | Sandstone hollows, cliffs; dry, dry-mesic oaks; beech-maple forest | ||
| Stoneface | 1990 | 176 | Sandstone cap of thrust fault, cliffs, glades; loess hill prairie; xeric to dry-mesic oak forest | ||
| Whoopie Cat Mountain | 1990 | 17 | Limestone cedar glade; dry oak forest; rugged hills | ||
| Indiana | Hoosier | Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest | 1944 | 88 | Mixed mesophytic forest; walnut grove |
| Michigan | Hiawatha (2,357 acres) |
Dukes | 1974 | 233 | Upland and swamp conifers and hardwoods on glacial till plain |
| Grand Island | 1977 | 59 | Northern hardwoods; sandstone cliff; lakeshore; creek bottomland | ||
| * Horseshoe Bay | 1996 | 2065 | cobble beaches, wooded dunes, northern fens, interdunal wetlands, rich conifer swamps, Great Lakes marshes, and hardwood-conifer swamps | ||
| Huron-Manistee (1,363 acres) |
Hayes Tower | 1997 | 388 | high-quality pine-oak forest type; aspen | |
| Newaygo Prairies | 1988 | 180 | Dry sand prairie; oak, pine forests | ||
| * Nordhouse Dunes | 1987 | 795 | Sand dunes; jack pine interdunal wetlands; swamps; hardwood dune forests | ||
| Ottawa (3,675 acres) |
* McCormick | 1971 | 3675 | Northern hardwoods and conifers; conifer swamp; lakes | |
| Minnesota | Chippewa (1,905 acres) |
Battle Point | 1991 | 329 | Sugar maple - basswood forest |
| Clustered Bur Reed | 1991 | 79 | Open and forested bog; shrub swamp; marsh | ||
| Pine Point | 1932 | 1239 | Red, jack, and white pines | ||
| Stony Point | 1991 | 404 | Wet-mesic northern hardwoods | ||
| Superior (2,093 acres) |
Keeley Creek | 1942 | 640 | Black spruce, jack pine forests; sedge meadows; lake; streams | |
| * Lac La Croix | 1942 | 973 | Red, white pines; river; cliffs | ||
| Marble Lake Lookout | 1988 | 120 | Northern hardwoods | ||
| Schroeder | 1973 | 360 | Northern hardwoods; ash swamp; white cedar swamp | ||
| New Hampshire | White Mountain (1,995 acres) |
Alpine Gardens | 1989 | 100 | Alpine tundra |
| Nancy Brook | 1991 | 1385 | Old-growth red spruce and balsam fir; virgin forest; includes the summits of three mountains | ||
| The Bowl | 1931 | 510 | Many trees are 400 years old or older; contains virgin forests with all of the principle timber types of the region. | ||
| Ohio | Wayne (96 acres) |
Buffalo Beats | 2000 | 19 | Remnant prairie surrounded by mixed-oak forest. |
| Reas Run | 1975 | 77 | Mature stands of Virginia pine which originated naturally following abandonment of agricultural land in the approximate period 1915-1920. | ||
| Pennsylvania | Allegheny (2,113 acres) |
Tionesta | 1940 | 2113 | One of the few remaining examples of the virgin hemlock-beech climax forest of the Allegheny Plateau. |
| Vermont | Green Mountain | The Cape | 1993 | 290 | Steep slopes; mesic northern hardwood forest, dominated by yellow birch, sugar maple and red spruce larger than 24 in (62 cm) in diameter |
| Wisconsin | Chequamegon (1,469 acres) |
Chequamegon Hardwoods | 1988 | 80 | Northern and swamp hardwoods; stream; exposed gabbro bedrock |
| **Fairy Land | 32 | Mature hemlock-hardwood forest lakeshore | |||
| McCarthy Lake & Cedars | 1989 | 363 | Lake; streams; white cedar swamp; pines | ||
| Memorial Grove Hemlocks | 1989 | 64 | Hemlock-hardwoods on pitted glacial moraine | ||
| Moquah | 1935 | 640 | Jack pine - scrub oak barrens without fire | ||
| Spider Lake | 1989 | 94 | Hardwood swamp | ||
| Tucker Lake Hemlocks | 1991 | 158 | Hemlock-hardwoods; conifer swamp; lowland brush; lakeshore; on glacial till | ||
| Twin Lakes Bog | 1989 | 38 | Conifer swamp; seepage lakes and bog | ||
| Nicolet (1,100 acres) |
Bose Lake | 1992 | 81 | Hemlock-hardwoods; lakeshore | |
| Grandma Lake Wetlands | 1991 | 495 | Lake and open bog; conifer swamp; hardwoods on glacial outwash | ||
| McCaslin Mountain | 1992 | 524 | Hardwoods; perched wetlands; xeric ridgetop | ||
* located inside wilderness area
** designated by Congress
Last Modified: 10/13/2006