Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation

Sponsoring natural science research at the Ives Lake Field Station in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
 
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The 'Stone House' at the Ives Lake Field Station provides housing and work-space for Foundation researchers.
HMWF researchers have access to a diverse, pristine landscape
The Huron Mountains research area includes a wide array of unusual habitats, including 'granite balds'.
Sea-rocket (Cakile edentula), in a northerly outlying population, is one of many regionally rare or unusual species present at the Huron Mountains.
The Huron Mt. research area includes approximately 4000 ha of old-growth hemlock and northern hardwood forest

Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation

Since 1955 the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation has sponsored research in the natural sciences focused on the lands and waters of the Lake Superior area. The Foundation maintains the Ives Lake Research Station with access to a 6000 hectare research natural area near Big Bay, MI.
PLEASE NOTE that we are in the process of redoing our website; additional content and features will be added soon. If you have questions, please use the 'contact us' page to email the Director of Research

Huron Mountain forests are massive — but are they growing?

A new publication by Dr. Kerry Woods, Bennington College, uses long-term study plots at the Huron Mountains to gain unique insight into the carbon status of old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forests.  The combined living and dead biomass/carbon pools in the stands sampled are very large for eastern North America, but dynamics …

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Kerry Woods August 28, 2014 October 4, 2014Uncategorized 0

Nomadic Crossbills and Cryptospecies

Cody Porter, a grad student at University of Wyoming, is hoping to determine the taxonomic identity of red crossbills. Red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) — sparrow-sized finches — are nomads.  They have no set range or territory but wander in flocks, over vast regions in search of conifer seeds.   If a …

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Kerry Woods August 28, 2014 October 4, 2014Uncategorized 0
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