Five Years of Plant Community Surveys

Plant ecologist and ballpoint pen artist Kelly Beaster recounts five year journey of surveying the Sax-Zim property to classify habitats and document vegetation.

The Sax-Zim Bog is home to many unique plant communities that provide the foraging, nesting, hunting and refuge opportunities for the diverse wildlife found in the Sax-Zim Bog. Learn how this data is collected, what characteristics define some of these plant communities, what types of species can be expected in each one and what the overall health of these communities is.