{"id":610,"date":"2019-09-05T18:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:19:24","slug":"st-croix-river","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/st-croix-river\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Croix River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This IBA encompasses 28 miles of the St. Croix River from the cities of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin and Taylors Falls, Minnesota south to Stillwater, Minnesota.\u00a0 It includes Interstate State Park, lands along the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, Osceola Bedrock Glades State Natural Area, Farmington Bottoms State Natural Area, St. Croix Islands State Wildlife Area, and lands owned by Standing Cedars Conservancy.\u00a0 This IBA mirrors the Middle St. Croix IBA established on the Minnesota side.\u00a0 The northern section of the site is characterized by a steep river gorge and dry cliffs, some with no or sparse vegetation, others with ferns and lichens, and others with dry forest of cedar, basswood, white pine, and oaks.\u00a0 The southern part of the site contains excellent examples of floodplain forest of silver maple, green ash, hackberry, and American elm, along with emergent aquatics, forested seeps, and running sloughs and backwaters.\u00a0 The uplands here are forested with oak, basswood, aspen, birch, and white pine.\u00a0 There are scattered patches of dry prairie and savanna.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

This site is important for floodplain forest birds such as hooded merganser, red-shouldered hawk, bald eagle, Eastern wood-pewee, yellow-throated vireo, cerulean warbler, prothonotary warbler, and Louisiana waterthrush.\u00a0 Bank, cliff, and Northern rough-winged swallows all nest along the bluffs and American bitterns and marsh wrens breed in the marshes.\u00a0 There are several large great blue heron rookeries along this portion of the river, and bald eagles can be common in winter if enough areas of open water remain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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St. Croix River, photo by Mike Mossman<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This IBA encompasses 28 miles of the St. Croix River from the cities of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin and Taylors Falls, Minnesota south to Stillwater, Minnesota.\u00a0 It includes Interstate State Park, lands along the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, Osceola Bedrock Glades State Natural Area, Farmington Bottoms State Natural Area, St. Croix Islands… [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-610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"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=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}