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RESULTS <br /> Background Information- (Office-Based Investigation) <br /> The NWI map (Excelsior Quadrangle) illustrates one National Wetland Inventory wetland (one <br /> PEMF) present within the property boundary (Figure 2). <br /> The Web Soil Survey of Orono and Hennepin County classifies one individual soil series and <br /> one soil complex present on the subject property (Figure 3). The mapped complex (Houghton <br /> and Muskego depressional) is a "hydric" soil and the individual mapped soil series (Lester loam <br /> moraninic) was classified as"non-hydric" soil. The soil series descriptions for each of these soils <br /> are given in the Technical Documentation Section at the end of this report. <br /> The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, State Protected Waters Map (Public Water <br /> Inventory), indicates one Public Water wetland (27-830 W)present within the property boundary <br /> (Figure 4). This public water falls within the bounds of the delineated wetland. <br /> Site Visit <br /> SER ecologists examined the subject property for areas meeting jurisdictional wetland criteria <br /> during the site visit. One wetland area met the jurisdictional criteria of a wetland for which a <br /> boundary was determined and delineated. The approximate wetland boundary is outlined in <br /> yellow(Figure 5). <br /> ' Wetland 1 <br /> Wetland 1 is located at the west end of the property. Dominant vegetation within Wetland 1 was <br /> nanow-leaf cattail (Typha angustifolia) and sedge species (Carex spp.) Reed canary grass <br /> (Phalaris arundinacea) was also dominant within Wetland 1 along the fringes. <br /> Sample Point Data Analysis <br /> ' The vegetation transition zone along Sample Transect 1-1 at Sample Point (SP) 1-1 WET <br /> � started with a dominance of reed canary grass, and narrow-leaf cattail in the herbaceous <br /> layer, red oak (Quercus rubra) and green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) in the tree <br /> stratum, and common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) in the shrub layer. Percent cover <br /> , in the herb layer totaled 65 percent with the remaining area being dead vegetation and <br /> bare soil. Both the dominance test,and the prevalence index were met. <br /> ', The vegetation transition to upland yielded a dominance of red oak trees, common <br /> buckthorn existing in the shrub and herbaceous layer, and finally, garlic mustard (Alliaria <br /> petiolata) in the herb layer. The dominance test was not met at the upland point. Total <br /> ' coverage of upland vegetation was 32 percent at the upland point within the herbaceous <br /> layer. The remaining area was bare soil and some dead vegetation. <br /> Soils at SP 1-1 WET were black silt loams down to 16 inches with redoximorphic <br /> concentrations at 1 percent within the upper 4 inches, increasing to 5 percent redox from <br /> Svoboda Ecological Resources 25 Myrtlewood Rd. <br /> Project No.:2011-034 3 Steven&Anne Ryan <br />