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Botanical Garden, 1991). Indicator status of plant species was taken from the National List of Plant Species That Occur in Wetlands: 1988 Minnesota (U.S. Fish 8t WMlife Service, 1988). nL RESULTS Review of Sntla. NWL —d DMt lafowrion The National Wetland Inventory Map (NWI) (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. 1989, Excelsior Quadrangle), shows one PUBF wetland on the property (Figare 2). The SoO Survey of Hennepin County^ Minnesota (USDA, 1974) shows the following soU types on the she: Glencoe sihy clay loam (Gc), Duodas silt loam (Du), Hayden clay loam (HcD2), and Nessel loam (NeB) (Flfure 3). Glencoe and Dundas are hydric soils characteristic of wetlands in the absence of drainage. The DNR Protected Waters Map, Hennepin County (Mixmesou DNR, 1981). docs not show any DNR Protected Waters, Wetlands, or Waterways on the property. Lydiard Lake (DNR Protected Water 1S9P) is shown approximate^ 1000 ftet west of the property (Figure 4). Wetland PetermlnnHoni and litf !/Cr Potential wetlands were evaluated in greater detafl during held observations. One wetland was ^ identifred and delineated on the site (Figure 5). Corresponding data forms are included in i^r’ Appendix A. The foUowing description of the wetlandandstirrounding upland reflects field condhions observed at the time of the delineation, which was typical of early winter, with dormant vegetafion and no snow cover. A thin layer of frost in the soil sur&e did not prevent examination of the sods. At the time ofthe delineation recent precipitation k\eb had been slightly below normal and temperatures were above nonnaL Precipitation for the year was above > noimal because of an abnormally wet firing. Wetland I was a Type 5 (PUBGx) excavated basin located in the western half of the property. t The extreme eastern edge of the wetland occurred on the adjacent property. Based on a review of historical aerial photographs, the w etland appeared to have been excavated to create open a* water some time between 1953 and 1957, with the spoil material sidecast on the adjacent uplands surrounding the wetland. Most of the wetland consisted of open water, yhich was seasotuibly low, exposing approximately 2040 feet of pond bottom around the edges of the wetland. Scattered reed carary grass, green bulrush, and giant ragweed ..as observed around the edges of > the basin, and duckweed was on the surfiKcoftbe pond and exposed mud. Soils in the wetland ^ consisted of 18 inches of silt loam sediment which had low chroma matrix colors and distinct ^ iron coDcentrations over a buried black silt loam A-borizon, which no iron concentrations. Water was observed whhin 6 inches oftbe suifrice in soQ pits just bdow the delineated boundary. The adjacent uplands primarily consisted of mowed Kentucky bluegiass lawn, with cotmron buckthorn and green ash trees to the north and southwest. Upland soils just above the wetland boundary consisted of 8 inches of black sih loam which had no iron concentrations over sandy