Heartland Forest has 4 kinds of maple trees: the black maple, the red maple, the sugar maple, and the freeman’s Maple. The maple genus is called Acer! The sugar maple’s binomial name (scientific name) is Acer saccharum!

The Muskrat is a semi aquatic rodent that lives in wetlands! We have some living at Heartland Forest, they can be seen at the fishpond, and can swim underwater for roughly 15 minutes on average!

Turtles can be seen sunbathing to regulate their temperature, they are called exotherms or “cold blooded”.

The white-tailed deer has 4 stomachs! These deer also mark their territory by rubbing bark off trees.