The wetlands on the property include several ecosystem types, including a black spruce-tamarack bog. This rare ecosystem provides habitat to a wide variety of animals for shelter, food and breeding.

Home to a variety of plant life, including floating pond lilies, cattails, cypress, tamarack, and blue spruce, wetlands support diverse communities of invertebrates, which in turn support a wide ...

A Minnetonka tamarack swamp is the new feeding grounds for helpful beetles released to munch away at purple loosestrife, a noxious weed that if left to thrive, can easily take over a wetland. In ...