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<br />Land Cover Classification Results <br /> <br />A total of 15,326 acres of natural and semi-natural areas were mapped for this project <br />in 1,413 individual polygons. These represent a variety of distinct natural and semi- <br />natural community types including forest, woodland, shrubland, herbaceous wetlands, <br />and grasslands, as well as areas of open water (lakes and ponds). No cultural areas <br />were mapped for this project (i.e. paved, developed, cropped, residential areas). <br />Below is a summary of MLCCS cover types for this project: <br /> <br />Planted Cover (20,000) (28 acres, 0.2%) This cover type is normally not considered <br />to be a natural area type, but some were included here due to native species being <br />present. This area represents a site within the City where pines have been planted <br />onto dry prairie <br /> <br />Forest (30,000s) represents an important part of Elk River's natural areas land cover, <br />comprising 5,718 acres (42.0%) of the city's land cover. Native dominated/remnant <br />forest cover types (30000's) within the city included native community remnants such <br />as dry oak forest. lowland hardwood forest, and floodplain forest. Non-native forest <br />types within the city were predominantly disturbed second growth forest types <br />comprised of elm, box elder, ash, cottonwood, and occasional basswood, maple, and <br />oak. <br /> <br />Woodlands (40,000s) comprise 1,458 acres (10.7%) of the city's land cover. <br />Although some acreage is degraded deciduous woodland dominated by elm, box <br />elder, ash, and cottonwood, or less commonly red cedar woodland and second growth <br />oak woodland/brushland, much is oak woodland with varying amounts of brush <br />encroachment. <br /> <br />Shrublands (50,000's) comprised 373 acres (2.7%) of the land cover. The majority of <br />this cover type was associated with wetland systems and also commonly had <br />significant presence of nonnative species, such as reed canary grass. <br /> <br />Herbaceous vegetation types (60000's) were most prevalent with a total of 5,101 <br />acres (37.5%). This cover type series includes natural communities such as wet <br />meadows, cattail marshes, rich fens, mixed emergent marshes, prairies, as well as <br />non-native dominated cover types such as reed-canary grass dominated wetlands, <br />agricultural old-fields, and other fallow land. <br /> <br />City of Elk River. MN - Natural Resouce Inventory <br />Bonestroo Natural Resources. September 2004 <br /> <br />16 <br />