Dragonfly and damselfly diversity peaks in mid-June. To highlight some of this diversity, our BioBlitz is usually mid-late summer. Fall is a fine time to visit the Sax-Zim Bog, as well. Maples and aspens begin changing color in mid-late September, with tamaracks changing color in November.

Encompassing an area of more than 300 square miles that spans from Zim in the north to nearly Floodwood in the south, and from the Toivola Swamp east to Stone Lake and US HWY 53, the land within these loose boundaries contains not only black spruce and tamarack bog, but upland aspen/maple forests, floodplain forest, ...