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State	Forest	Candidate RNA	Size (acres)	Description
Michigan	Hiawatha (11,759 acres)	Little Waiska Basin	496	Red maple; hardwood-conifer swamps; mesic northern forest. Contains 60-ft deep gorges cut in clay plain by the river.
		Nahma	867	Represents the following forest types: Paper birch; Northern white cedar; Black ash-American elm-red maple; and Northern red oak. Also may be important in Piping plover federal recovery plan.
		Pointe aux Chenes	4266	Interdunal wetlands; sand/gravel beach; Great Lakes Marsh, Northern Wet Meadow; Patterned Fen; Northern Fen; Wooded Dune and Swale; Dry meis northern forest; Dry northern forest. Contains special plants and animals. Currently used in piping plover recovery plan. May be useful in federal in Solidago houghtonii, and Cirsium pitcheri recovery plans.
		Rock River Canyon	83	Contains 50 acres of uncut Northern Hardwoods
		Scott's Marsh	1538	Patterned fen and scrub/shrub wetland
		Shingleton Bog	3366	Patterned fen
		St. Martin Peninsula (Point)	518	Wet cobble beach; fen-like wetlands; Northern fen; Rich conifer swamp; dry mesic northern forest. Contains special plants and animals. May be useful in federal recovery plan for Solidago houghtonii.
		Upper 18 Mile Lake	478	Northern fen. Two rare plants occur here.
		Weden's Bay	147	Represents the following forest types: Paper birch and Northern with cedar. May also be important for Iris lacustris federal recovery plan.
	Huron-Manistee (7,689 acres)	Bear Swamp (includes Yonker's Meadow)	2139	A rich conifer swamp, a southern swamp, and intermittent wetlands. Five rare plant species and one rare animal species are known to inhabit these areas.
		Big South (includes Whelan Lake)	1842	Contains several vegetative communities including a bog, intermittent wetland, oak-pine barrens, southern floodplain forest, and emergent marsh. This area represents a large, diverse, highly undisturbed floodplain with high floral and faunal diversity.
		Black River Complex	750	Globally rare wooded dune and swale complex along the Lake Huron shoreline
		Blockhouse Swamp	1010	Rich conifer swamp and a small mesic northern forest.
		Brandybrook	1300	Located on poorly drained glacial outwash sands and includes a complex of wetland communities, of which five are considered high quality natural communities.
		McDonald Creek Forest	103	Dry-mesic northern forest with mature white pine, aspen and some red pine. Currently the best identified representative of white pine-aspen forest located in the Harrisville Moraines Subsection.
		O’Brien Lake Forest and Swamp	130	Dry-mesic northern forest dominated by red pine some of which are over 100 years old, and a poor conifer swamp dominated by black spruce. The best known example of a poor conifer swamp in the Mio Outwash Plains Subsection.
		South Olga Bog	30	Located in Big Rapids loamy moraine subsection.
		Trout Lake Swamp	185	Second-growth hardwood-conifer swamp dominated by northern white cedar, black ash, balsam fir, and black spruce. This area is primarily in an undegraded state and contains a high level of diversity.
		Vaughn Lake	200	A high quality, highly diverse bog surrounded by a forested zone of tamarack, black spruce, white pine, and red maple. The sandy uplands around the forested wet zone support a dry-mesic forest.
	Ottawa (210 acres)	Sturgeon Gorge	210	Gorge is deep V-shaped valley containing terraces, oxbow lakes and other landscape features.
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Minnesota	Chippewa (934 acres)	Otter Tail	434	LT 46- Fire Intolerant Northern Hardwood Forest; LT 55- Fire Intolerant Northern Hardwoods-Conifer Forest
	Chippewa (934 acres)	Pimushe Lake	500	LT 46- Fire Intolerant Northern Hardwood Forest
	Superior (17,958 acres)	Big Lake-Seven Beavers	5,599	Excellent representation of variety of characteristic upland and lowland plant communities. cRNA dominated by wetland communities including lowland black spruce, lowland cedar, shrub swamp, and bog, connected to Sand Lake Peatland SNA.
		Blueberry Lake	2,445	Good representation of jack pine, spruce-fir, aspen birch, paper birch, upland black spruce, and lowland black spruce plant communities, as well as well as aquatic communities in streams and small lakes.
		Cabin Creek	2,085	Large block of old growth upland forest communities including spruce-fir, sugar maple, upland cedar. Also aspen-birch, paper birch, lowland black spruce and lowland cedar forests, plus sedge meadows.
		Dragon Lake	2,075	Good representation of old growth red pine, upland and lowland black spruce, wetland bog, and wetland shrub swamp communities. Good representation of former Isabella pinery. Also aquatic communities.
		Lake Agnes	792	Site dominated by northern hardwoods forest community in uplands and lowland black spruce along Poplar River . Extensive river floodplain.
		Loka Lake	1,661	cRNA part of an extensive peatland dominated by stunted black spruce and tamarack with interspersed upland islands. Peatland has developed some patterning.
		Pike Mountain	709	Site is on top of Mesabi Range and has good representation of old growth northern hardwood communities (sugar maple and red oak), paper birch forest, and rock/talus communities.
		Sullivan Creek	1,495	Site includes Toimi drumlins, Cloquet River floodplains, red maple-northern hardwoods and aspen-birch upland forests, lowland black spruce and tamarack forests, wetland shrub swamp.
		Wolf Lake	1,097	Good representation of paper birch and aspen-birch forest; boreal hardwood-conifer forest; upland and lowland white cedar; lowland black spruce and shrub swamps; and highly diverse aquatic plant communities.
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New Hampshire	White Mountain (approx. 2,575 acres)	Bowl Extension	940	This site enlarges and helps protect the integrity of “The Bowl" providing an additional area of old northern hardwood forest. Distinguishing features include old beech, yellow birch and spruce and its cirque-like shape.
		Gibbs Brook	360	This property is considered to be nearly virgin timber. Cores from Red spruce trees date back to an average year-of-origin between 1755 to 1904. Gibbs Brook is located between 3700-4050 feet of elevation where 102 species of vascular plants have been identified.
		Mountain Pond	106	An excellent example of large-diameter northern hardwoods including old growth sugar maple and white ash up to 35 inches diameter breast height.
		Peabody Mountain	230	Northern hardwood spruce forest.
		Shingle Pond	1169
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New York	Finger Lakes (544 acres)	Hector Oak Woods	332	Appalachian oak-hickory forest that is mature in some portions and provides rare plant habitat.
New York	Finger Lakes (544 acres)	Sawmill Creek Ravine	212	Mature hemlock-northern hardwood forest along a series of ravines formed by Sawmill Creek and its tributaries.
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Ohio	Wayne (981 acres)	Kaiser Hollow	981
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Vermont	Green Mountain/Finger Lakes (58 acres)	Blue Ridge Fen	58
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West Virginia	Monongahela (approx. 2,370 acres)	Black Cherry	189	Even-aged stand dominated by mature black cherry.
		Pike Knob	1,999	Xeric oak and pine-oak forests and woodlands. Southernmost native stand of red pine.
		Red Spruce	60	Even-aged stand of pure red spruce and uneven-aged red spruce/northern hardwood mix.
		Yellow Poplar	122	Mature mixed deciduous forest dominated by yellow poplar.
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Wisconsin	Chequamegon (11,338 acres)	Bear Creek	922	Old-growth hemlock; stream
		Bearsdale Creek and Hyatt Spring	490	Bur oak, basswood, black ash bottomland hardwood forest; spring-runs and ponds; exposed dry bedrock outcrops
		Brunsweiler River and Mineral Lake	969	Old-growth hemlock-yellow birch-sugar maple forest; rocky river gorge; Mineral lake; stream
		Brush Creek	284	Super-canopy white pine, mixed conifer and hardwood swamps in kettle depressions, a forested reach of Brush Creek, a small ice-walled-lake-plain.
		Camp Nine Pines	860	Red, White, Jack Pine
		Dry Lake	358	Upland hemlock-hardwoods; lake; open wiregrass sphagnum bog and tussuck sedge meadow; cedar-black ash and tamarack-black spruce
		Foulds Creek	1437	Black spruce-tamarack bog; northern white cedar; a prominent esker with hemlock, white cedar, red and white pine; spring runs; stream
		Headwater Lakes	756	Sugar maple-beech-yellow birch; hemlock; lowland black spruce; Wabasso, Cedar and Favil Lakes
		Mondeaux Hardwoods	721	Mesic hemlock-hardwood forest; super-canopy white pine; springs and spring runs
		No-Name Lake	283	Sugar maple-basswood; black spruce-tamarack; soft water seepage lake;
		Richter Lake Hemlocks	308	Sugar maple-basswood; black ash-american elm-red maple; stream
		St. Peter's Dome	2269	Sugar maple-basswood; aspen; Long Lake; Morgan Falls; stream; gorge following a fracture in Keweenawan granite
		Tucker Lake Hemlocks	509
		Wilson Creek	1172	Lowland black spruce-tamarack; Wilson Creek , Wilson Lake and Star Lake, mosaic of sedge meadow communities
	Nicolet (4,989 acres)	Atkins-Hiles Swamp	2360	Hiles Swamp , Atkins Lake, and,upland drumlins
		Battle Creek	99	Northern mesic forest dominated by White Pine, Hemlock; river
		Echo Lake	422	Mature hemlock-yellow birch-sugar maple; white cedar, tamarack, balsam fir; Echo lake; bog mat; Ninemile creek
		Rat Lake Swamp-Popple River Headwaters	1549	Black spruce-tamarack; northern white cedar; Popple river, Rat creek, and Rat lake; long, narrow esker
		South Branch Beech Grove	224	Mature beech and sugar maple forest
		Waupee Lake Swamp	335	White cedar, balsam fir, and black ash; headwaters for Little Waupee Creek; Waupee Lake
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Last Modified: 10/29/2012