Calumet BioBlitz - Interactive Map


	Stretching from Southeast Chicago and adjacent suburbs to Northwest Indiana, the Calumet region is notable for the contrast of outstanding natural environments intermingled with industrial parks and steadfast neighborhoods. Despite a 130 year history of heavy industrial use, the region contains critical remnants of highly endangered ecosystems, including prairies, wetlands, oak savannas, and oak woodlands along with a number of endangered and threatened species. The Calumet BioBlitz covered a diversity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats in three adjacent sites within this urban landscape. Eggers Woods Forest Preserve contains 250 acres of native oak woodland, meadows, and marsh. South of Eggers Woods is an abandoned Nike missile site that supports scattered clumps of shrubs and trees upon slag landfill. The 804-acre Wolf Lake is shared between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. On the western shore, the William W. Powers State Conservation Area contains recreation space of fields, cottonwoods, and second-growth woodland. Areas of shoreline have retained many native wetland plants. South of Wolf Lake is the 175-acre Powderhorn Lake Forest Preserve. On the detail map look for the alternating bands of the ridge-swale complex. The light bands are sandy ridges supporting tall-grass prairie and oak savanna. The darker bands are the low swales with wetter vegetation of willows and marsh. Click below to explore the three sites and to learn how the science teams conducted their inventories at each site. continue to interactive map >>

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