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Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Forest Met Prairie (3.19510)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material is depicted in the shape of a bur oak leaf. It describes how a line of bur oaks indicates where the climax forest and climax prairie met.
Header: FOREST met PRAIRIE [illustration of grass and trees]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- The Record
- 1. a curving line of bur oaks
- 2. the heavy corky bark of the bur oaks, in comparison with bark of red oak.
- 3. the change in soil profiles at edge of oaks this [illustration of soil] to this [illustration of darker soil]
- Interpreting the Record
- 1) Because bur oaks, with their corky bark were best able to withstand the fires that swept the prairies (often set by Indians) and
- 2) because bur oaks are best at withstanding dry prairie winds
- 3) because bur oaks are seldom found in the heart of the woods
- We Read that: this line of bur oaks marks the place where the climax forest met the prairie climax
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: The Northwoods (3.34179)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Northwoods association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: THE NORTHWOODS
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- bunchberry
- hermit thrush
- red pine
- white-tailed deer
- white pine / hemlock
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Forest Margin and Fence Row (3.34182)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a forest margin and fence row association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: FOREST MARGIN and FENCE-ROW
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- bumble-bee
- gold-finch
- hawthorn
- wild strawberry
- deer-mouse
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Beech-Maple Climax (3.34226)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a beech-maple climax forest association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: BEECH-MAPLE CLIMAX
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- wood sorrel
- oven bird
- beech
- chipmunk
- hemlock / sugar maple
Extent: 1 slide
Forest Margin (3.34292)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A poster of the forest margin, created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, featuring locations with the highest bird populations. The poster depicts airbrushed color silhouettes of a row of trees with various birds perched in them, and spring flowers depicted in a row beneath.
Extent: 1 slide