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Mounds View Ardan Park Ponds <br /> • Plant community resembling Pin Oak—Bur Oak Woodland (FDs37b)with improved wildlife <br /> habitat, native plant diversity, and water infiltration capacity. <br /> Vegetation Management Objectives <br /> • Canopy cover is over 50% and dominated by bur oak and pin oak, with a few canopy black <br /> walnut and hackberry where present in 2023. Elm and boxelder are removed from the canopy. <br /> Diseased/declining pin oaks and black cherry are removed. Standing dead trees are removed. <br /> Any EAB-infested ash trees are removed. <br /> • All invasive, nonnative trees (white mulberry) and saplings are removed. <br /> • Native shrub cover is 25-50%and composed of species such as black raspberry, red-berried <br /> elder, gooseberry, chokecherry, American hazelnut, prickly ash, and gray dogwood. Prickly ash <br /> cover is reduced to maintain more diverse native shrub and ground layer cover. <br /> • Invasive, nonnative shrub cover(common buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, Tartarian honeysuckle) is <br /> reduced to less than 5%. <br /> • Herbaceous ground layer vegetation cover is increased to over 75% and dominated by native <br /> grasses, sedges, and forbs, such as those listed in the table below. <br /> • Diverse ground layer vegetation is established using diverse native seed mixes that include <br /> species that can provide high quality wildlife habitat and floral resources for pollinators throughout <br /> the growing season. <br /> Dry— Mesic Oak Woodland - Desired Future Conditions Overview <br /> BUR OAK— PIN OAK WOODLAND <br /> Vegetation <br /> Layer Cover(%) Representative Plant Species <br /> Canopy 50-100 Bur oak, pin oak, black cherry, existing canopy black walnut and <br /> hackberry <br /> Subcanopy 5-25 Bur oak, pin oak, black cherry <br /> Black raspberry, red-berried elder, gooseberry, chokecherry, American <br /> Shrub/Sapling 25-50 hazelnut, gray dogwood, Virginia creeper, prickly ash; seedlings and <br /> saplings of canopy species(oak) <br /> Bottlebrush grass, silky wild rye, Pennsylvania sedge, Sprengel's sedge, <br /> Herbaceous common woodland sedge, white snakeroot, violets, enchanter's <br /> (Ground) 75-100 nightshade, false Solomon's seal, Clayton's sweet cicely, wild geranium, <br /> lopseed, large-leaved aster, wild columbine, calico aster, arrowleaf aster, <br /> zig-zag goldenrod, tall bellflower, black-eyed Susan <br /> Project <br /> ® Number: <br /> 193806462 10 <br />