Flora and Fauna
Named for its open marshy grassland, the park's peat bogs and marshes include sedges and black spruce, tamarack, and white cedar. Uplands host a mixed hardwood and conifer forest of maple, oak, poplar, birch, white pine, and red pine.
Land animals in the area include moose, bear, deer, gray wolves, coyotes, skunks, amphibians, and wood turtles. Birds include bald eagles, sharp-tail grouse, warblers, boreal owls from Canada which winter in the area, sandhill cranes, trumpeter swans, and loons.
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