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The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan
Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86
The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan
Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86
The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan
Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86
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    The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 - Lee Raymond Dice

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    Title: The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan

    Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86

    Author: Lee Raymond Dice

    Release Date: September 5, 2010 [EBook #33648]

    Language: English

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    Number 86      June 24, 1920

    OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF

    ZOOLOGY

    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

    Ann Arbor, Michigan    Published by the University


    THE MAMMALS OF WARREN WOODS,

    BERRIEN COUNTY, MICHIGAN

    By Lee Raymond Dice

    Few detailed studies of the mammal associations of the forests of the United States have been made. But if we are ever to know, for our different species of mammals, the natural environments under which their evolution and differentiation occurred, we must study and describe their habitats and habitat limitations before all the native areas in the country have been altered by the activities of mankind. As a contribution to this subject the following paper is presented.

    The Warren Woods are a state preserve under the Edward K. Warren Foundation. They are located in Berrien County, Michigan, about three miles north of Three Oaks. The preserve consists of about two hundred acres, of which somewhat less than half is in clearing and the remainder mostly covered by forest, much of it still nearly in its primitive condition.

    Fig. 1.

    —Sketch map of Warren Woods Preserve. The distribution of the various mammal habitats is indicated.

    The topography is nearly level, though the area is cut by a number of ravines draining to the Galien River, which flows through the preserve. Along the river and in its bends there are moderate-sized flood-plains.

    On the flood-plains a few small buttonbush swamps occur; and along the margins of the river a few freshly formed mud bars have not yet become forested; but most of the flood-plains are covered by heavy forest. The higher ground, except that in the clearing, is covered by heavy beech-maple forest.

    Several types of habitats are represented in the clearing: in a few of the cleared ravines a thick growth of sedges and iris occurs; on the higher ground

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