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Emydoidea blandingii <br />Blanding's Turtle <br />10 <br />Table 6. Documented Rare Features in Lino Lakes <br />Scientific Name <br />Common Name <br />Number of Records <br />Plant Community <br />Northern Poor Fen Class <br />Tamarack Swamp (Southern) Type <br />Plants <br />Birds <br />Northern Poor Fen <br />1 <br />Tamarack Swamp (Southern) <br />2 <br />Agalinis purpurea <br />Purple Gerardia <br />4 <br />Decodon verticillatus <br />Waterwillow <br />1 <br />Fimbristylis autumnalis <br />Autumn Fimbristylis <br />5 <br />Platanthera flava var. herbiola <br />Tubercled Rein - orchid <br />1 <br />Polygala cruciata <br />Cross - leaved Milkwort <br />2 <br />Potamogeton bicupulatus <br />Snailseed Pondweed <br />1 <br />Rotala ramosior <br />Tooth -cup <br />3 <br />Scirpus clintonii <br />Clinton's Bulrush <br />1 <br />Viola lanceolata <br />Lance - leaved Violet <br />7 <br />Xyris torta <br />Twisted Yellow -eyed Grass <br />1 <br />Bartramia longicauda <br />Upland Sandpiper <br />1 <br />Cygnus buccinator <br />Trumpeter Swan <br />1 <br />Grus canadensis <br />Sandhill Crane <br />1 <br />Haliaeetus leucocephalus <br />Bald Eagle <br />7 <br />Sterna forsteri <br />Forster's Tern <br />4 <br />Colonial Waterbird Nesting Area <br />Colonial Waterbird Nesting Site <br />3 <br />Reptiles <br />Mammals <br />Pipistrellus subflavus <br />Eastern Pipistrelle <br />1 <br />Presettlement Vegetation <br />Native vegetation patterns of Lino Lakes were described at the time of Minnesota's Original Land Survey <br />(circa 1850), and prior to European settlement of Minnesota. Native vegetation communities within the <br />City prior to European settlement were primarily comprised of oak barrens and savannas, aspen/oak <br />forests and woodlands, dry, mesic, and wet prairies, rich fens, poor fens, bogs, tamarack swamps, a <br />network of shallow lakes and associated marshes, and inclusions of mesic hardwood forest (Figure 21). <br />Large -scale natural processes dramatically influenced the formation, establishment, and succession of <br />natural vegetation patterns and natural communities within the landscape over thousands of years prior to <br />European settlement. These natural processes include: surface and sub - surface hydrology, flooding, <br />drought, herbivory, wildlife migration, plant dispersal, plant community succession, and occasional to <br />frequent wildfires. Over the past 150 years, the natural landscape and associated landscape processes have <br />been widely altered to accommodate agricultural land uses, development, and other anthropocentric uses <br />of the landscape. The original land survey of the Lino Lakes area was conducted in the middle 1800s. It <br />provides good information about vegetation in and around the City of Lino Lakes prior to Euro - American <br />settlement (U.S. General Land Office, 1853). Interpretation of surveyor's notes indicated the presence of <br />floodplains along large lakes, wetlands, savannas, and mesic forests in protected lakeshores and on <br />islands. <br />City of Lino Lakes SWMP 1 February 8, 2013 Draft 1 47 <br />