The area below the dam at Monroe Lake has some excellent bottomlands with some uncommon plants. You just have to go in spring or else you'll be eaten alive by the mosquitos that breed by the millions in seasonally-flooded parts of the bottomlands.

Flooded bottomland, 4/12/04.

The edge of the bottomland with lots of spring ephemerals, 4/12/04.

More flooded bottomland, 4/14/04.

Nice light, mucky water, 4/14/04.

Bluebells, Mertensia virginica, near Salt Creek, 4/14/04.

Salt Creek, 4/14/04.

Later in the season, the leaves are out but the water's still around. It'd been a wet year. 6/5/04.

The area above the dam is also apparently good for fly-fishing. Here's Eric Osnas, 4/12/04.