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Site Description<\/h3>\n

Extensive open and forested wetlands characterize this IBA, which encompasses portions of the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest, the Turtle-Flambeau State Scenic Waters Area, the Lac de Flambeau Indian Reservation, and Powell Marsh State Wildlife Area.\u00a0 Vast areas of muskeg, open bog, and conifer swamp are present, as well as alder thicket, and sedge meadow.\u00a0 Also found here are older conifer forests of white and red pine on patches of higher ground, as well as young aspen and deciduous forest.\u00a0 There also are many creeks, flowages, and lakes.<\/p>\n

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Manitowish Peatlands, photo by Ryan Brady<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Manitowish Peatlands, photo by Ryan Brady<\/p><\/div>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

This site provides for robust breeding assemblages of both forested and open wetland birds, including several rare or uncommon species.\u00a0 American black duck, yellow rail, olive-sided flycatcher, gray jay, boreal chickadee, Connecticut warbler, and Nelson\u2019s sharp-tailed sparrow can all be found breeding here.\u00a0 Hermit thrush, Nashville warbler, palm warbler, and Lincoln\u2019s sparrow are numerous in some places, as are common loon, osprey, and bald eagle on lakes and flowages.\u00a0 Powell Marsh has an assemblage of grassland breeding birds absent elsewhere in this IBA, including sharp-tailed grouse, short-eared owl, Henslow\u2019s sparrow, Le Conte\u2019s sparrow, and Brewer\u2019s blackbird.\u00a0 This area also hosts large numbers of waterfowl and smaller numbers of shorebirds during migration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description Extensive open and forested wetlands characterize this IBA, which encompasses portions of the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest, the Turtle-Flambeau State Scenic Waters Area, the Lac de Flambeau Indian Reservation, and Powell Marsh State Wildlife Area.\u00a0 Vast areas of muskeg, open bog, and conifer swamp are present, as well as alder thicket, and… [Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-481","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/481\/revisions\/484"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}