Appendix B. A table listing 74 land-cover types used in the development of vegetation ca. 1800 and unchanged until the late 20th century (Comer et al. 1995; see Appendices C and D, and Supplements 1 and 2).
| WETLAND | |||
| NON-FORESTED WETLAND | |||
| Emergent Marsh, Meadow, Prairie | |||
| Emergent marsh | |||
| Great lakes marsh | |||
| Interdunal wetland | |||
| Wet meadow | |||
| Inland salt marsh | |||
| Lake plain prairie | |||
| Inland wet prairie | |||
| Intermittent wetland | |||
| Mud flats | |||
| Marl flats | |||
| Shrub-dominated wetland | |||
| Bog | |||
| Alder, willow, bog birch thicket | |||
| Buttonbush, willow swamp | |||
| Patterned peatland | |||
| Muskeg | |||
| Upland/wetland complex | |||
| Wooded dune/swale complex | |||
| FORESTED WETLAND | |||
| Hardwood / Conifer - hardwood dominant | |||
| Black Ash | |||
| Elms | |||
| Silver maple, Red maple | |||
| Cottonwood | |||
| Balsam poplar | |||
| Aspens | |||
| White birch | |||
| Black willow | |||
| Confir / Hardwood - conifer dominant | |||
| Cedar | |||
| Black spruce | |||
| Tamarack | |||
| Balsam fir, White spruce | |||
| Balsam fir | |||
| Jack pine | |||
| Hemlock | |||
| White pine | |||
| UPLAND | |||
| NON-FORESTED | |||
| Grassland | |||
| Herbaceous-Upland grassland | |||
| Savanna | |||
| Lake plain oak opening | |||
| Oak barrens | |||
| Pine barrens | |||
| Oak-pine barrens | |||
| Bur oak savanna | |||
| Oak opening | |||
| FORESTED | |||
| Northern Hardwoods | |||
| Beech, sugar maple, yellow birch | |||
| Sugar maple, yellow birch, fir | |||
| Sugar maple, basswood | |||
| Beech, hemlock | |||
| Aspens, paper birch | |||
| Central Hardwoods | |||
| Beech, sugar maple, basswood | |||
| White oak, black oak, hickory | |||
| Black oak, white oak | |||
| Pin oak, black oak | |||
| Pine | |||
| White pine | |||
| Red pine | |||
| Jack pine | |||
| Red pine, jack pine | |||
| Red pine, white pine | |||
| White pine, white oak | |||
| Red pine, oak | |||
| White pine, beech, maple | |||
| Other Upland Conifer | |||
| White spruce | |||
| Hemlock, cedar | |||
| Fir, spruce, cedar | |||
| Hemlock | |||
| Hemlock, white pine | |||
| Hemlock, sugar maple | |||
| Hemlock, yellow birch | |||
| Sparsely Vegetated | |||
| Beach, riverbank | |||
| Open sand dune | |||
| Alvar | |||
| Bedrock glade | |||
| Sinkhole | |||
| Limestone ledge / outcrop | |||
| Sandstone ledge / outcrop | |||
| Igneous-metamorphic ledge / outcrop | |||
| LAKES AND RIVERS | |||
| Major river | |||
| Lake or pond | |||
| Great lakes |
LITERATURE CITED
Comer, P. J., D. A. Albert, H. A. Wells, B. L. Hart, J. B. Raab, D. L. Price, D. M. Kashian, R. A. Corner, and D. W. Schuen. 1995. Michigan's native landscape as interpreted from the General Land Office Surveys 1816–1856. Report 1995-07. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, Michigan, USA.