Flora Spring Pond State Natural Area

Flora Spring Pond features a spring pond, a community that is common in this area but quite uncommon in the rest of the state. The spring pond forms the headwaters of Evergreen Creek, and has excellent water quality that supports a population of brook trout. Surrounding Flora Spring Pond is a conifer swamp of white cedar, black spruce, and hemlock. Some of the trees near the pond have died as a result of high water levels caused by beaver. From the north a small tamarack and black spruce bog drains into the spring pond. Waterfowl occasionally use the pond. Breeding birds include barred owl, winter wren, black and white and blackburnian warblers, northern waterthrush, scarlet tanager, and purple finch. Flora Spring Pond is owned by Langlade County and was designated a State Natural Area in 1969.