Flora, Fauna, Earth, and Sky...
The Natural History of the Northwoods

Contents

• Flora
• Aquatic Plants, emergent, floating, and submerged
• Ferns and Fern Allies, the Ferns, Horsetails, and Clubmosses
• Terrestrial Herbs, the plants of the forest floor
• Mosses, Lichens, and Liverworts of the Northwoods
• Shrubs, from tiny shrublet to small trees
• Trees, Aspen, Birch, and Cedar; Spruce, Pine, and Fir
• Fauna
• Birds, Woodpeckers, Owls, and Chickadees (and the other 7 year round residents)
• Mammals, Moose, Wolf, and Beaver country
• Reptiles & Amphibians, in a land of waters, it's mostly frogs
• Fish, Bass, Northern, Walleye, and Trout - and their finny foodchain
• Invertebrates, Ticks, Flys, Leaches, and Mosquitos - the welcoming land

• Earth
• Communities, the plant communities
• Ecology,
• Geology,
• Limnology,
• Sky
• Aurora Borealis,
• Weather & Climate,

Natural History of the North Woods

• Boundary Waters Canoe Area Natural History, a summary
• Minnesota's List of Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species, from the Minnesota DNR

Northwoods Flora

• Boundary Waters Canoe Area Plants, a short listing of common trees and forbs

Northwoods Fauna

• Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildlife, a general article
• Reptiles and Amphibians of Minnesota,
• Wildlife on the Gunflint Trail, numerous photos and links

Sky

• Northern Lights on the Web, Aurora Borealis Links

 

Last updated on 13 April, 2004