NATURAL AREAS AND REGIONS 



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Area of lake 596 acres, meander 

 encloses 600 acres. 



Adjacent prairie rich in prairie species, 

 Iowa thistle, blazing star, gentians, 

 goldenrods. 



Rockwell City 4 mi. south. 111. 

 Cent. Ry. C. M. & St. P. Ry. 



*Farmington. (C3.) About 100 acres 

 bank of Des Moines river, mi. south 

 of Farmington. 



Natural lake of 40 acres, covered with 

 American lotus. Nearly all native spe- 

 cies of oak; post, red, white, black, bur, 

 chestnut, swamp, pin, black jack. 



Farmington mi. north, C. B. & Q. 

 Ry. or C. R. I. & P. 



*Lacey-Keosauqua Park. (C3.) Van 

 Buren County in the great horseshoe 

 bend country of the Des Moines river. 



Native wild animals red fox, quail, 

 ruffled grouse, gray squirrel, cedar wax 

 wing, whippoorwill, etc. 



Trees; white ash, redbud, quaking 

 aspen, sycamore, red cedar, shellbark 

 hickory, pignut, almond-leaved, black 

 and sand bar willows, red, white, swamp 

 white, chestnut, post, shingle and bur 

 oaks, cottonwood, soft maple, green 

 and white ash, hackberry, basswood, 

 slippery and American elm, red mul- 

 berry; shrubs; wild grape, black haws, 

 sumach, bladder nut, dogwoods; of 

 herbaceous plants, purple trilliam, col- 

 umbine, dutchman's breeches, blood 

 root, hepatica, mandrake, blue cohosh. 

 In prairie opening blazing stars, gen- 

 tians, goldenrods and asters. 



Fine Indian mounds. 



Altitude 600 ft. 



Keosauqua adjacent S. C. R. I. & 

 P. Ry. 



Highway 11. 



*Eldora, Steamboat Rock and Pine 

 Creek Area. (C3.) This area of some 

 200 acres lies in Hardin County. The 

 most remarkable feature of the region 

 is the peculiar island flora; the plants 

 on the ledges or the talus at the base 

 of the hills are of the boreal type. White 

 pine, paper birch, gray birch, polypody, 

 beech and marginal ferns. 



Eldora adjacent, M. & St. L. Ry., 

 branch of C. & N. W. Ry. 



*Backbone Park. (C3.) Northwest- 

 ern Delaware County, Richland town- 

 ship, embracing the flood plain of the 

 Maquoketa River and hills adjacent, 

 surrounded by a gentle rolling prairie, 

 but park itself extremely rugged. The 

 Backbone proper is a narrow ridge 

 lying within a hook of the Maquoketa 

 River. Limestone rocks rising 80 to 

 100 ft. above the river. Trees such as 

 commonly found in northeastern Iowa 

 with the exception of the white pine 

 and the sycamore. The fauna is typical 

 for northeastern Iowa. Richmond 

 springs on the spring branch, a trout 

 stream. 



Strawberry Point, Clayton County 

 4 mi. northeast. C. M. & St. P. Ry. 



*Palisades } Linn County. (B2.) 

 Some 140 acres of flood plain of the 

 Cedar River and upland; mesophytic 

 upland woods, vertical cliffs of lime- 

 stone 30 to 50 ft. rising from the Cedar 

 River. Rugged walls border this river 

 for a distance of two mi. in the upper 

 part on the east bank and the lower 

 part on the west bank. Back of the 

 Palisades are gently sloping hills. In 

 places, however deep gullies slope 

 toward the river. 



Yellow moccasin flower, showy orchis, 

 polypody, Woodsia, walking leaf fern, 

 narrow leaved spleenwort, cancer root, 

 cliff brake, Indian pipe are common 

 herbaceous plants. 



Animals; badger, opossum, raccoon, 

 skunk, mink, fox and wolf, turkey vul- 

 ture, ruffed grouse, quail, Acadian 

 flycatcher, cardinal, phoebe. 



15 mi. southeast of Cedar Rapids, 

 C. & N. W. Ry. C. R. I. & P. Ry. 

 111. Central. C. M. & St. P. 



Lepley Park. (C4.) Area about 9 

 acres. Mature flood plain forest. 



Station M. & St. D. Ry. \\ mi. north 

 at Union. 



Branch of the C. & N. W. 6 mi. north 

 at Eldora. 



^Theodore F. Clark Park. (C4.) 25 

 acres just above a typical flood plain of 

 Wolf Creek, a tributary of Cedar River, 

 most of it not subject to overflow. 



Typical mature mesophytic flora. 



