The Online Lower Minnesota River Watershed District News, December 2005

Chronological list of News articles about calcareous fens
and trout streams

Steve D. Eggers and Donald M. Reed, US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, Wetland Plants and Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin (1997) is the best full-text and color photo treatment of the ecosystems of calcareous fens and other wetland communities. This publication is also the source of the native species photos used on this page and the groundwater report page.


Sterile sedge, one of the characteristic plants of the rare calcareous fen ecosystem. Photo: USGS.