Lost Mound/Savanna Army Depot, Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge
Carroll and JoDaviess Counties, Illinois
Losts Mound/Savanna Army Depot Plants and Wildlife
Savanna Army Depot Plants and Wildlife
In the table below:
Click on the Plant, Bird, Reptile and Amphibian, Insect and Arachnid, and Mammal tabs at the bottom of the table to scroll through the lists.
These lists are based on species identified during site visits, Ebinger et al. (2006), and sightings submitted using the link in the sub-bullet point below. Submitted species are added to the table as time allows.
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Bloom periods are based on those provided by the Illinois Plants Database.
About this natural area:
Lost Mound is a mix of habitat types in what was once a US Army Depot, with sand prairies the most extensive habitat type throughout the unit. Some areas are not open to the public and some of the buildings are occupied by various business. This is one of the few areas where one can reliably hear whip-poor-wills calling after dark. Many rare species occur within this refuge.
Amenities
Paved road. River overlook and Kiosk.
Literature and links:
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Ebinger, J.E., L.R. Phillippe, R.W. Nÿboer, W.E. McClain, D.T. Busemeyer, K.R. Robertson, and G.A. Levin. 2006. Vegetation and flora of the sand deposits of the Mississippi River valley in northwestern Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 37(6):191–238.
Gleason. October 1910. The vegetation of the inland sand deposits of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Library of Natural History Volume IX Article III.
Leavin, Geoffrey A., Kenneth R. Robertson, Kathryn A. Kramer, and Loy R. Phillippe, Center for Biodiversity. Botany of the Savanna Army Depot. INHS Reports Mar/Apr 1997.
Quad City Times. Historic off-limits places: Savanna Army Depot/Lost Mound Unit. Oct 7, 2018 Updated Jul 7, 2020.
Sietman, Anderson, Nyboer, and Hutto. 2002. The Unionid Mussel Fauna of Lost Mound National Wildlife Refuge (Savanna Army Depot), Upper Mississippi River and Lower Apple River. Univeristy of Illinois Technical Note.
Spyreas*, G., Pearse*, I.S., Nickrent, D.L., Greenwood, N.M., Epstein, A., and Anders. P., (eds.) 2017. Illinois Plants: a web-based database for the flora of Illinois. https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/data/plantdb
Wenny, Dan. 2001. Upland Bird Communities of Lost Mound Unit of the Upper Mississippi River National Fish and Wildlife Refuge and adjacent areas of the former Savanna Army Depot. Illinois Natural History Survey Center for Biodiversity Technical Report. Illinois Natural History Survey Savanna Field Station 3159.
Click here to view additional information from the book, “Prairie Directory of North America: The United States, Canada, and Mexico.”
Click here to view the IDNR webpage for this site.
Click here to see the Audubon Society webpage for this site.
Click here to view the EPA's webpage regarding this site's superfund status.
Click here to view Explore Savanna's drone footage of the Savanna Army Depot.
Click here to view the Illinois Natural History Survey webpage for this site.