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Aspens grow on cold slopes or low wet places.

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1912
[[underlined]] North Dakota [[/underlined]] Stump Lake, June 12-17
A great glacial trough or else a basin formed by burnt out coal beds. Shale crops out commonly along shore but granite boulders abundant above shale & especially so on top of the many hills and ridges. The lake is deep & strong of salt & alkali. No fish except minnows & sticklebacks live in it now but up to about 1889 pickerel were abundant in it. They all disappeared as they did for Devils Lake, evidently for lack of spawning grounds. The lake has fallen about 25 feet in 30 years & has no marshy borders or fresh water connections. Still it has much aquatic vegetation & is the home to hundreds of white winged scoters and other ducks which breed over the prairie or in hollow trees. 

There is much timber around the lake in a strip half a mile wide or less. It is a good stand of not very large trees of bur oak, elm, boxelder, ash, wild plum, chokecherry and smaller brush.