ENTs,
Occasionaly we talk about the other native landscapes and as I was out
wondering on a glade this past Monday helping collecting seeds for Seeds of
Success (http://www.nps.gov/plants/sos/) I took several photos. I have
downloaded them to photobucket at http://tinyurl.com/nj42xt The photos were
taken on Crescent Knoll Glade at Shaw Nature Reserve (SNR). For the history of
the SNR go to http://www.shawnature.org/about/SNRhistory.aspx I found it and
interesting read and enjoyed the old photos. I will try to print those off and
go back and try to take a photo from the same view. As you can see in the old
photos most of the 2500 acres was cleared for farming until the mid 1920's.
Even when SNR was starting up there was different ideas of what needed to be
done, ie trying to get away from the coal smoke in St. Louis, it should have a
proper "English Garden" setting, etc. The lastest idea is to try to restore it
back to what was there when the
ground was orginally surveyed. This means that there should be wide variety
of habitats ranging from bottom-land forests, woods, glades, fens, wetlands,
and pariares to mention a few.
For those who don't know where Shaw Nature Reserve is (and I am assuming there
are quite a few of you) it is located near the middle of the map in the
following link in between Robertsville and Grey Summit along
I-44. http://tinyurl.com/mb3ck9
A little closer in. Once agian in the center from Old Grey Summit Road to the
Meramec River on the bottom to the straight up and down road on the left to the
were the river starts its "smile" after the short straight run.
http://tinyurl.com/lbkwst
Beth
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