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Upland .Na tviral Community Descripons and Management <br />Recommendations <br />entral Rark hosts a miniber of upland Tialur-al co-nin-itinities, including oi-lik <br />-Mid ]owland hard,wood forest. Some 5() to I years 'acyo. n)ost of the upland landscapes xNvithin <br />ti Q park would have been or open. 'kvith scattereci ur(,.),vcs, oToak trees neLu, Bennett Lake can <br />Q­MSSICS, pef'haps prairie. under them. <br />I_,; <br />,More rcccritIv, in the "Cubsence ofperiod'c fire and grazing, these open areas -giver e pionce-red bN., <br />re es tv P i C "I ovv -1 ire I,; a re ass k1a n areas I n t 11 C U P Pel- M i d NNr- e s t e x Ii t s I iil a r c h a i -c t c r i st I c 'S <br />.and will oo dirouoh �! maturation process, <br />1�7 ". It <br />'Community CP-'Ul, <br />Oak Wood land-brushland <br />Qualitative Rank: D <br />Nonnative Shrub Rank., 15 <br />'rhis ciomnitimty inicludies tNvo parcels one on the northeast side of Bennett Lake and the other on <br />the southweist side of Blennett Lake. <br />"I"he northeast segment includes a naiTow strip of flooldplain forest along the shore of the lake, as <br />Nv'ell as thie trail stem and some tree/shrub plantings. I.-I'cre, <br />i is 'the oldest trees are wide1v scattered <br />V <br />larger bur mclk, with stands of younger boxelder, quaking iaspi n. it ash, and cottonwood <br />present. Norinatives black locust and Siberian efill are a1 I <br />present here 'n moderately low <br />numbers. Most of the younger trees are less than 10 inches in diameter. <br />I'lie shrub laver is moderate in thickness in most places W"ith )`OUng green ash and boxelder seine <br />most common. Other notable mernberss of the shrub laver here include common cider, juneberryl <br />and the nonnative s European and glossy buckthorn, 'rartarian honeysuckle, Siberian elm, <br />Russian olive, black locust, and white mulberry. <br />I *r <br />The ground layer vari es from sparse and poor qualitv in areas that have recently been colonized <br />Wr, <br />by trees, to moderate qualitv in areas where prairie species .persist. Nonnatives are common in <br />Cilv qf^Roseville <br />Parkv iVahtral Resource .11anagrement <br />Ift it 0 dh <br />