A guide to the natural history of the Cedarburg Bog: Part II

The boardwalk that extends to the center of the Cedarburg Bog is the UWM Field Station\u27s most heavily used teaching facility. Research is also conducted in the Bog, which holds an understandable fascination for researchers and students of natural history because of its size, complexity, diversity and geographical isolation from similar communities. Because of the increasing research and teaching use of the Bog, it has become essential that some of what is known about the natural history of the Bog be assembled and summarized in an easily accessible introduction and guide. The guide contains too much material to fit into one issue of the Field Station Bulletin. The first issue contains a narrative on each of the vegetation zones through which the boardwalk passes. The second issue has the selected species lists, annotated with natural history notes, which are also arranged by vegetation zones along the boardwalk. The second issue also contains vertebrate and vascular plant species lists for the Cedarburg Bog. An index to both volumes and the literature cited for both volumes are contained in Part I. As research on the Bog continues, I plan to revise this guide periodically to incorporate additional information. The Field Station would appreciate suggestions regarding ways that future editions of this guide might be improved

B830: An Atlas of the Native Woody Plants of Maine: A Revision of the Hyland Maps

In 1944 Fay Hyland and Ferdinand Steinmetz published The Woody Plants of Maine: Their Occurrence and Distribution. This small bulletin catalogs the state\u27s native and exotic trees, shrubs, and woody vines. In-state distributions are given for 513 taxa, including 366 species, Ill varieties and named forms, and 36 hybrids. Hyland collected information for this comprehensive work from three sources: a systematic field survey of the state which he personally conducted between 1933 and 1939; a review of botanical publications on Maine flora; and herbarium records from the New England Botanical Club, Gray Herbarium, Arnold Arboretum, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Portland Society of Natural History, and several private collections. Eighteen thousand records were assembled through the field survey alone. These records, along with those tabulated from herbaria, were plotted by species on small-scale (1:1,000,000) maps of Maine. Written descriptions of each taxon were summarized from the resulting maps and compiled into the bulletin described above. The distribution maps themselves, however, were never published. The single (original) copy of Hyland\u27s maps has been kept in the Special Collections of the University of Maine\u27s Fogler Library since 1944. The ink used to mark species occurrences on those maps is now fading sufficiently to endanger the records. To preserve this valuable resource and to evaluate patterns of species\u27 richness in Maine, maps of all native species were digitized using AUTOCAD (1988). In all, 240 species meet Hyland\u27s definition of woody plants ( those plants with ligneous, perennial [biennial in Rubus] stems which increase in diameter each year by formation of annual rings ) and the criterion of natural occurrence. This includes varieties and subspecies that are the sole representative of a given species as well as 10 taxa whose distributions were not documented by Hyland (Table 1). Because new stations have been documented for many species in the nearly 50 years since the original distribution maps were prepared, specimens in the University of Maine Herbarium and the publication Rare Vascular Plants of Maine were used to update Hyland\u27s maps. A new record was noted only if it clarified or extended the range boundary of a species.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/aes_bulletin/1130/thumbnail.jp

The distribution of trees along Upper Skunk river, Iowa

Typescript (photocopy) Thesis (M.S.)--Iowa State College, 1923. Includes bibliography

Browsing the bog

The Cedarburg Bog and its surrounding uplands provided a rich smorgasbord of plants to fill the many needs of its earliest human inhabitants. A flora of the area and a list of plant species that were employed in some manner by the Native Americans would be almost identical. The species discussed in this paper had real or rumored values for a variety of Woodland tribes of the Upper Midwest and later for the settlers. Besides their medicinal value, many plants were sources of food, fiber, dyes, construction, and of a variety of “magical” or symbolic purposes. My intent is not to document the actual effectiveness or safety of the medicinal or food plants, but to present their historical perception as resources in a landscape empty of drugstores, grocery stores, hardware stores, and often, doctors

Plant and Animal Populations of the Missouri River Valley in North Dakota

Report on O. A. Steven's involvement with the Missouri River Basin Comprehensive plan, an initiative authorized by the 78th congress that would flood three-fourths of the Missouri River flood plain valley floor. Stevens' report analyzes the estimated number of tress, shrubs, plants, and birds that would be practically affected by the flood