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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This IBA is a significant forested landscape encompassing Moose Lake State Natural Area and surrounding Iron County Forest and corporate forest lands.\u00a0 Remote and largely unpopulated, it contains the largest contiguous block of old-growth hemlock forest remaining in the entire state, as well as extensive muskegs and lowland forests of cedar, alder, ash, and tamarack.\u00a0 There also are stand of spruce and spruce-fir, tamarack forest, old red pine forest, floodplain forest, upland openings, and lakes.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

Breeding birds of both upland and lowland conifers occur here in significant populations, including olive-sided flycatcher, yellow-bellied flycatcher, Blackburnian warbler, and Canada warbler.\u00a0 Old-growth stands host high numbers and densely packed territories for species such as blue-headed vireo, brown creeper, Northern parula, and magnolia warbler.\u00a0 Rare or uncommon species found here include Northern goshawk, long-eared owl, black-backed woodpecker, gray jay, boreal chickadee, and palm warbler.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Moose Lake Forest, photo by Ryan Brady<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This IBA is a significant forested landscape encompassing Moose Lake State Natural Area and surrounding Iron County Forest and corporate forest lands.\u00a0 Remote and largely unpopulated, it contains the largest contiguous block of old-growth hemlock forest remaining in the entire state, as well as extensive muskegs and lowland forests of cedar, alder, ash,… [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-507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"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=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}