As sort of a New Year's resolutions for 2013 for the blog (yeah, definitely not for me at all, nope, totally for educational purposes here), in addition to keeping regular on my mission of showing the people of the world what a wonderful slice of it we have here in North America, I figured I would give a preview of destinations I have planned up for visits:
The Glacial Grooves on Kelleys Island in Ohio
The best non-Great Lakes and Canadian Shield visual reminder we have of the last ice age.
Twin Swamps Nature Preserve in Indiana
A distinctly southern habitat in the Midwest, one of the northernmost places one can run into naturally occurring Baldcypress.
Black Spruce Bog in Michigan
In contrast to Twin Swamps, one of the most southerly places one can find Black Spruce and the boreal forest well into the warmer south.
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie (Illinois)
A masterpiece of what is left of the grasslands which once covered far more of our continent than most people today can even imagine.
Letchworth State Park in New York
What I believe to be the best place in the world to see the marriage of the Appalachians to the Great Lakes. Two worlds coming into contact in one lovely eastern canyon.
And then on the extended but less likely list:
Blue Mounds State Park in Minnesota
Granite outcrops, cacti, prairie. Part of a larger region where the boreal Canadian Shield runs into the Great Plains.
Cranesville Tamarack Swamp in West Virginia
About as far south as the Boreal world can get.
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