Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation

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

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.

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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 …

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 …