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Concept: A 11 day shared expenses birding trip to Minnesota, North Dakota, and possibly South Dakota. We will be seeking out and enjoying the numerous breeding species of the northern great plains.
Monday June 8 - Thursday June 18th

North Central 2009
Page updated Monday, February 16, 2009 8:29 PM

Bert Filemyr, Jane Henderson, Bob Cohen, Connie Goldman, Ann Scott, Karl Lukens (and ""Ethel")
For further information: Contact Bert Filemyr

Planning
Step one - determine possible locations
Step two - research the locations
Step three - develop a sequence
Step four - figure a daily plan

Near Duluth Minnesota

Place
Near
Attraction
Resources
Comment
Nemadji State Forest
between MSP and Duluth (Pine County)
 
Birder's Guide to Minnesota
Birding Minnesota
Possible first stop
Sherburne NWR
Possible first stop
roads in New Independence Township
Duluth
"Vast amounts of tamarack swamp, meadows, spruce stands, and deciduous woods stretched off in all directions"
NJ Audubon
Sax-Zim Bog
forty miles northwest of Duluth
"vast complex of meadows, sedge-lined streams, alder thickets, tamarack swamps, and coniferous forests"
NJ Audubon
Stone Lake Road,
Duluth
LeConte's sparrows
NJ Audubon
Superior National Forest - the white pine wayside along Rte 2
North of Duluth
Blue-headed Vireos, Blackburnian and Pine Warblers sang in towering white pine trees and a Gray Jay perched for a few moments.
NJ Audubon
Superior National Forest - Greenwood Lake
North of Duluth
NJ Audubon
Superior National Forest - Sand Lake
North of Duluth
NJ Audubon
Superior National Forest - Palisade Head
North of Duluth
NJ Audubon
 

 

 

Near Dakota Lakes MN

Place
Near
Attraction
Resources
Comment
Itasca State Park
Brainerd Vicinity
Tamarac NWR   Northern decidious forest, auto tour   Major stop

Aitkin/McGregor and vicinity

Near Fargo ND

Place
Near
Attraction
Resources
Comment
Felton Praire
Fargo/Moorhead
Praire
Major stop
Fargo Sewage Ponds
Helliksen Prairie Waterfowl Production Area

Waubun WMA

 

Near Jamestown ND

Place
Near
Attraction
Resources
Comment
Arrowwood NWR
Jamestown
 
Major stop
Jamestown Sewage ponds
 

Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge

 
Major stop