A BWCA Glossary

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Abdomen Abinodji Abiotic Pathogen Abita Acarology Accidental Accipiter Achene Achundo Acid Rain Acidity Acidophile Adipose Fin Aecial Stage (æcium) Aerobic Agamok Agassa Agawato

Agassiz Ahgoday Ahmakose Ahsub Alder Algoman Orogeny Alkaline Allochthonous Alpha Alternate Alternate Host Aluminum Alluvial Ament Amimi Ammocoete Amphibian Anærobic Anal Fin Andek Anemone Angiosperm Angleworm Trail Animikean Period Anion

Anishinabe Anit Annual Anther Antheridia Anticline Apical Apothecia Arachnology Archegonium Arctic Ocean Arrowhead Arrowhead Trail Arthropod Arum Ashigan Aspen Assawan Aster Aurora Borealis Autochthonous Autoecious Automba Phase Awn Axil

Babesiosis Bakekana Baldpate Balm of Gilead Balsam Banadad Bane Baneberry Baraga, Frederic Bark Beetle Barbel Basal Basalt Baskatong Basswood Falls Bat Batholith Bead Lily Beam	Bear Bear Bag Bear Rope Beatty Portage Beaver Beaver Pond Becoosin Bedrock Bellwort Bench Mark Benezie Loop Bewon Beymer, Robert Bezhik Bibon Biennial Big Knife Portage Big Moose Trail Bilberry Bingshick Binomial Birch Bishop's Cap Black Fly Bladder Fern	Bladderwort Blade Blaze Blowdown Blueberry Blueberry Portage Bog Bole Boreal Bottom Bracken Bract Braided Stream Break Up British Soldiers Browse Bryology Buccal Funnel Buck Saw Bullhead Bunchberry Burbot Bushwhack Butt
Cacabic Calcareous Calla Calyx Cambium Camdre Camp Robber Canadian Shield Canoe Canoe Rest Canoe Sign Canopy Cant Hook Capillary Fringe Capillary Water Caribou Caribou Rock Trail Caribou Trail Carnivore Carp Portage Casual	Cation Cat Catkin Caudal Fin Caudal Peduncle Cedar Cenozoic Chemical Sedimentary Rock Chickadee Chipmunk Chippewa Chlorophyll Cilia Cinquefoil Circumboreal Clastic Sedimentary Rock Clay Clear Cut Clear Length Cliff Brake Climax Clinton, DeWitt Clone Clubmoss Cocoon	Coltsfoot Compound Conchu Conglomerate Conifer Conk Continental Divide Cook County Cookoosh Copepods Corolla Corticolous Corvid Cotyledon Courduroy Cowbird Crepescular Crossbill Crown Crown Fire Crown Lands Crustacea Crustose Culm Cummings Lake Trail Curtain Falls Cyanobacteria
Dakotah Damselflies Daniels Spur Trail Daphnia d.b.h. Decumbent Deer Deer Fly Deer Tick DEET Dehiscent Dehydration Dendrology	Dessication Devil’s Cascade Devil's Elbow Diabase Diameter at Breast Height Diatoms Dicotyledon Dike Dioecious Disappointment Mountain Disk Displacement Speed Diurnal Division DNR Dog Dogbane	Dog Tick Dogwood Dorsal Fin Double Carry Dragonflies Drainage Basin Drainage Divide Drift Drupe Duckweed Duct Tape Duff Duffer Duluth, City of Duluth Complex Duluth, Lake Duluth Pack Dystrophic
Eagle Mountain Echo Trail Ecology Ecosystem Eelpout	Ely Elytra Empids Endangered Endosperm Entomology Entire Entry Line Entry Point Epicormic Branching Epilimnion	Ericad Erratic Eskwagama Etymology Eutrophic Even-aged Evergreen Extinct Extirpated Extrusive
Fairy Barf Falcon False Bottom Feathermoss Fen Fernberg Road Fibric Peat Filamentous Finch	Fir Fire Firebreak Fire Danger Fire Grate Fire Interval Fire Line Fireweed First Growth Fish Consumption Advisory Fisher Flag Flat Bottom Fleabane	Flowering Fern Flycatcher Follicle Forest Forest Center Forest Floor Formation Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness Frogs Frond Fruticose Fruiting Body Fungi
Gabbro Gab-e-on-e-quet Gabimichigami Gaging Station Gall Gametophyte Gel-coat Genus Germination Giants Range Giardia	Gills Girdle Gitchigumi Glabrous Glacier Glaucous Global Warming Gneiss Gneiss Lake Portage Goldeneye Goldthread Gooseberry Gorp GPS Goshawk Grand Marais Grand Portage	Granite River Portage Great Cherry Portage Greenstone Grenzhorizont Greysolon, Daniel Greywhacke Grosbeak Grounded Mat Grouse Grub Gull Gunflint Trail Gunwale Gymnosperm Gypo (gyppo) Gyttja
Habitat Hardwood Hare Harebell Harica Harrier Haustoria Hawk Hazel Heath	Heinselman, Myron Hemlock Herbaceous Herbivore Herpetology Herriman Lake Trails Height of Land Portage Heterocercal Heteroecious Highland Morraine Honeydew Honeysuckle Horse Portage Horsefly Horsetail Horsetail Rapids	Host Houghton, Lake Hovland Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis (HGE) Hummock Humus Hunters Island Huronian Period Hydric Hydrophyte Hypæ Hypolimnion Hypothermia
Ichthyoplankton	Icterid Igneous Indusium Inflorescence Insectivore Instar Internode	Interrupted Interstadial Intrusive Involucre Isinglass Island Arc Izaak Walton League
	Jack Jay Jewelweed	Junco Juniper
Kaapoo Kamimela Kawasachong Kawishiwi Kawishiwi River Kayak	Keel Keewatin Period Kekekabic Kekekabic Trail Kekekabic Trail Club Keneu Kerfoot, Justine Kestrel Kettle Lake Kevlar® Keweenaw Keweenawan	Kiana Kingfisher Kinglet Kinnikinnik Kinogami Kiskadinna Kivandeba Kivaniva Knife Lake Period Koma Kutka
Lac la Croix Lacustrine Ladder Fuel Lady Slipper Lagg Lake County Lake-fill Lamprey Larch Larva Latrine	Laurel People Laurentian Layering Leatherleaf Lemming Length Lentic Lesser Cherry Portage Lichen Liftover Lightning Lima Mountain Limnology Linnaeus, Carolus Litter Little Knife Portage	Little Vermilion Narrows Littoral Loam Lobe Loess Loon Loon Lake Portage Looper Loosestrife Lost Interval Lotic Lujenida Lungwort Lutsen Lyme Disease Lynx
Madtom Magnetic Declination Makwa Maniwaki Manomin Maraboef Lake Portage Marl Marsh Marten McKenzie Meadowrue Meander	Median Fins Mercury Merlin Mesaba Microcrustacea Microplankton Mid-Continent Gravity High Minerotrophic Mink Minnesota Misquah Misquah Hills Mistletoe Mites Mitrewort Moat Moiyaka Mole Monocotyledon	Monoecious Monument Portage Moonwort Moose Moose Mountain Moose Portage Morraine Mosquito Motor Route Mouse Muck Mukooda Muskeg Muskrat Mustelid Mutualism Mycelium Mycobiont Mycology Mycorrhizae
Nabek Nahimana	Nannoplankton Nawakwa Neesh Neewin Newton Falls Nibin Niswi Nocturnal	North Shore Northern No-see-um Norway Trail Noyens Nuthatch Nymph
Ogishkemuncie Ogliotropic Ojibwe Oketo	Old Growth Old Pines Trail Olson, Sigurd Omaday Ombrotrophic Omnivore Ontario Orchid Oriniack Ornithology	Orogeny Osmunder Osprey Otter Outwash Overmature Overstory Ovipositor Owl Ozada
Pagami Painter Pakween Palmate Pangi Panicle Parasitic Passerine Peat Peavey Pekan Pelagial Zone Peltate Perch Peregrine Perennial Perfoliate Pericarp Perseids Meteor Shower	Petiole pH Phenology Photosynthesis Phreatophyte Phylum Phytoplankton Pike Pileated Pillow Structure Pilose Pine Pine Portage Pinna Pinnas or pinnæ Pinnate Pinnatifid Pinnule Pioneer Pipestone Falls Pipewort Pipsissewa Pistil Pistillate Pixie Cups Planimeter	Plankton Plover PMA Podzol Poling Polypod Pondweed Poplar Popple Porcupine Portage Portage Wheels Potable Water Pow Wow Trail Prairie Portage Precambrian Primitive Management Area Proboscis Profundal Zone Proleg Prothallium Pubescent Pulp Pussytoes
	Quadga Quarter Quetico	Quill Quillwort
Raceme Rachis Raccoon Ragwort Rainy Lobe Ramet Range Raptor	Rare Rayflower Rebound Red Osier Red Shift Redpoll Reindeer Lichen Remote Area Border Crossing Permit Reptile Resin Rhizome Riparian Riparian Habitat	Rocker Rod Root Crown Root Sprout Rosendahl Spruce Rosette Rotator Cuff Rotifer Round Bottom Rove Formation Royalex® Rush Rust
Saganaga Saganaga Batholith Saganaga Falls Sagus Salamander Samara Sand Sandpiper Saprophyte Sapwell Sarsaparilla Saskatoon Sawbill Sawbill Trail Sawfly Sawtimber Saxicolous Scabrous Schroeder Sebeka Second Growth Section Sedge Sedge Fen Sedge Mat Sedge Meadow Seed Bank Seed Tree Seedbed Self Pruning Senescence Seral Sere Serotinous Serviceberry Sessile	Seta Shallow Arch Bottom Shinleaf Shipstead-Nolan Act Shotholes Shrew Sides Sign Sill Silviculture Sinneeg Sioux Hustler Trail Siskin Skoota Skullcap Skunk Slash Smartweed Smelt Snag Snake Snipe Snowbank Trail Snowberry Softwood Soil Horizon Soil Texture Soligenous Solo Solomon's Seal Soredia Sorus South Lake Portage South Lake Trail Spadix Sparrow Spathe Spatulate Species Species of Special Concern Specific Epithet	Sphagnum Sphagnum Lawn Spiracle Splake Spleenwort Sporangia Spores Sporophore Sporotrichosis Spruce Budworm Squamulose Squirrels St. Johnswort St. Louis County St. Louis Sublobe Stability, Initial Stability, Secondary Stable Fly Stairway Portage Stamen Staminate Starflower Steelhead Stipe Stolon Stratification Striations Strobilus Stuart Lake Trail Sturgeon Substrate Succession Sucker Summer Stagnation Sundew Sunfish Superior Superior Uplands Swallow Swamp Swamp Portage Symbiosis
Taiga Takucmich Talus Tamarack Taxonomy Telial Stage Terrestrialization Terricolous Tesaker Thallus	Thermocline Thickneck Thompson-Nickerson Morraine Thorax Threatened Thrush Thunderstorm Thwart Tick Till Toad Toadflax Tofte Topo Topo!	Township Tree Treed Fen Trillium Trim Tripe Trout Truck Portage Tuber Tufted Tumblehome Tumpline Turnover Turtle Tussock Twinflower
	Umbel Umbellate Uncommon Underbrush Understory	Upland Uredial Stage USFS USGS
	Valders Vaseux Portage Velum Verendrye Vermilion Massif Vermilion Moraine	Vireo Virgin Timber Vole Voyageurs National Park Vulture
Wabang Wagosh Wanihigan Wapata Warbler Washte Watap Portage Waterline Watershed Water Table	Water Tabs Watonwan Wawaswi Waxwing Weasel Webster-Ashburton Treaty Wetland Wheelbarrow Falls White Gasoline Whorl Whorled Wilderness Act Wildfire Willow Willow Herb	Windthrow Winterkill Wisconsinan Wisini Witches' Broom Wolverine Woodcock Woodland Period Woodpecker Woodsia Wood Tick Wolf Wort Woundwort Wren
	Yew Yoke	Zitkala Zone of Aeration Zone of Saturation Zones, USDA Zooplankton

Last Updated on 11 April, 2004