Michigan Lake Plain Ecoregion
Ecoregions: Michigan Lake Plain
Michigan Lake Plain Ecoregion shown in blue
The Michigan Lake Plain ecoregion is a sandy coastal strip with beaches, high dunes, beach ridges, mucky interdunal depressions, and swales. Its lake-moderated climate as well as its beach and dune plant communities differentiate it from inland ecoregions. This ecoregion has greater relief, higher woodland density, more conifers in its savanna community, and less made-land than the Chicago Lake Plain. There is now considerable urban development and industrial activity as well as some farming; scattered woodlands occur on the lee side of dunes and in some poorly-drained areas. Source: US EPA
Natural Areas in this ecoregion include:
Ambler Flatwoods (LaPorte County)Barker Woods (LaPorte County)
Coulter Nature Preserve (Porter County)
Cowles Bog (Porter County)
Glenwood Dunes Trail (Porter)
Great Marsh (Porter County)
Indiana Dunes State Park (Porter County)
Kemil Beach (Porter County)
Miller Woods (Lake County)
Mount Baldy (LaPorte County)
West Beach (Porter County)
Wintergreen Woods (LaPorte County)
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