Old Lake Lasalle is now Saint Mary’s Unique Terrestrial Wetland Woods The Keck Foundation Proposal

Saint Mary’s Wetland Woods

Then - Lake Lasalle – circa 1929 Assumption Galileo Pump house

The original lake

In between the lake and woods - 1965

On its way to a wetlands – post 1965

Today

GIS Work - Ecological Zones

Oaks prefer north or east slopes

May 2005 Expedition

May 2005

In the midst of horsetails and red willow.

Horsetails

The stream

What is the Keck Proposal?

July 2005 – Ivan and Giuliana’s transects

Dam Transect 6

Saint Mary's Wetlands

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July 2005 - Fieldwork in the Wetland

Where do we go to from here?