page_title: Split Rock Lighthouse State Park
section_title: Flora and fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Split Rock Lighthouse State Park / Natural history / Flora and fauna
caption_attribution_description: English: Fungi in Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Minnesota
context_page_description: Split Rock Lighthouse State Park is a state park of Minnesota on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It is best known for the picturesque Split Rock Lighthouse, one of the most photographed lighthouses in the United States. Built by the United States Lighthouse Service in 1910, the lighthouse and some adjacent buildings have been restored and the Minnesota Historical Society operates them as a museum. The 2,200-acre state park offers a unique cart-in campground and scenic trails for hiking, cross-country skiing, and bicycling.
context_section_description: The park was originally forested with red and white pine.  However, these were heavily logged at the beginning of the 20th century, and wildfires sweeping through the cutover land killed many of the remaining saplings and seedlings.  Today the vegetation is primarily birch with some spruce, fir, and ash trees.
  Mammals found in the park include white-tailed deer, moose, black bears, raccoons, snowshoe hares, red foxes, bobcats, and Canadian lynxes.  A colony of beavers lives on the Split Rock River.  Birds include herring gulls, common loons, and a variety of songbirds. Peregrine falcons nest on the lakeside cliffs.
caption: Vegetation in the park
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