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54 Friends of the Mississippi River Camp Cozy Park NRMP <br />Recommended Plant Community: FFs59a Silver Maple - Green Ash - Cottonwood Terrace Forest <br />(Appendix B). <br /> <br /> <br />Unit 8 <br />Floodplain Forest <br />Photo 8. Vegetation growth following spring flooding of the floodplain forest in Unit 8, July 2023. <br /> <br />Acres: 3.4 acres <br /> <br />MLCCS Land Cover types: 32220 Lowland hardwood forest; 32113 Oak forest dry subtype. <br /> <br />General Description: Unit 8 is a floodplain forest east of the south dry prairie (Unit 2) and north <br />of the south oak forest (Unit 6), in an oxbow of the Elk River. The canopy consists of red and <br />white oak, silver maple, green ash, hackberry, boxelder, and cottonwood. The shrub layer <br />consists primarily of buckthorn and red osier dogwood. Ground layer vegetation includes wood <br />nettle, stinging nettle, sensitive fern, rice cutgrass, blueflag iris, and horsetail. Invasive garlic <br />mustard is present. Recorded vegetation data is documented in Appendix A. Evidence of EAB <br />(emerald ash borer) is present along with some dead green ash. There is evidence of regular <br />flooding throughout the unit. Along the north and east boundaries of the unit, significant debris