2005 Funded
Projects
Illinois
Hennepin
and Hopper Lakes Restoration – (application by The Wetlands
Initiative) – Putnam County – ($40,500) – The hydrology
of Hopper Lake was recently restored to historic conditions. The
Wetlands Initiative will control invasive plant species to protect
habitat for at-risk plant species
such as fen panicled sedge, queen of the prairie and savanna blazing
star. Approximately 35 acres of wetland will be treated
to control cattail and reed-canary grass.
Managing
Habitat for the Threatened Eastern Prairie
Fringed Orchid in Northeastern Illinois – (application
by Fox Valley Land Foundation) – Lake, Kane, Grundy, Cook,
Ogle and Kankakee counties – ($79,500) – Working with
nine private landowners, the Fox Valley Land Foundation, in cooperation
with Abbott Laboratories, Kane County Forest Preserve District,
Hybernia Homeowners Association and The Nature Conservancy, will
manage habitat to support stable or increasing populations of the
eastern prairie fringed orchid on private lands in northern Illinois.
Stewards will monitor the status of orchid populations, and increase
the size and number of populations of other state listed native
species and rare community types through management of these private
sites.
Indiana
Black
Oak Savanna and Prairie Pocket Marsh Restoration – (application
by Big Eastern, Inc.) – Starke County – ($18,260) –
The grantee will use chemical applications to control exotic and
invasive species in this wetland area. Approximately 90 acres of
oak savanna will be burned to control brushy understory to benefit daisy-leaf grape fern, Blandings turtle
and eastern massasauga rattlesnake.
Iowa
Habitat
Restoration in the Hills - Phase II – (application by Golden
Hills Resource Conservation and Development Area) – Plymouth,
Woodbury, Monona, Harrison, Paottawattamie, Mills and Freemont counties
– ($64,904) –The grantee will use awarded funds to complement
the Loess Hills Stewardship Work Plan in southwest Iowa. The Golden
Hills Resource Conservation and Development Area, in coordination
with The Nature Conservancy, The Loess Hills Alliance, Pheasants
Forever and private landowners, will restore and improve native
prairie habitats, improve grazing lands, restore oak savannas, and
provide best management practice services and skills to landowners.
The stewardship projects will benefit grassland
species such as Great Plains skink, prairie rattlesnake, Arogos
skipper, Ottoe skipper and regal fritillary butterfly.
Michigan
Cotton
Lake Fen and Prairie Restoration – (application by a private
individual) – Calhoun County, Michigan – ($25,601) –
The private landowner will restore 3.4 acres of prairie fen and
18 acres of upland prairie to historic vegetative conditions, restoring
habitat for the Mitchell's satyr butterfly.
Minnesota
Imperiled
Species Conservation on Private Land in Western Minnesota –
(application by Friends of the Morris Wetland Management District)
– Wilkin, Ottertail, Grant, Pope, Kandiyohi, Big Stone, Yellow
Medicine and Lac Qui Parle counties – ($58,297) – Friends
of the Morris Wetland Management District will work with more than
ten private landowners to remove woody cover in order to enhance
and restore native prairie habitats to benefit greater
prairie chicken, marbled godwit, short-eared owl, Henslow's sparrow,
Dakota skipper and western prairie fringed orchid. Approximately
2,500 acres have been identified for clearing.
Sand
Coulee Prairie Restoration – (application by Friends of
the Mississippi River) – Dakota County – ($59,185) –
Friends of the Mississippi, cooperating with eight private landowners,
will improve and maintain approximately 80 acres of native dry prairie,
barrens subtype through stewardship activities including reduction
and control of exotic and invasive plant species to benefit James'
polansia, sea-beach needle grass, clustered broomrap, Ottoe skipper
and regal fritillary.
Rare
species and rich fen habitat restoration – (application
by a private individual) – Anoka County – ($44,755) –
Approximately 23 acres of high quality wetland habitat will be restored
and enhanced with Private Stewardship funding. Glossy buckthorn,
reed canary grass and giant reed will be removed; soil surfaces
scraped to remove reed canary genotypes and invasive seed bank;
collect native species seeds on-site and disperse throughout the
fen; and prescribed burning. Species that will benefit from the
restoration include twisted yellow-eyed
grass, cross-leaved milkwort, turbercled rein orchid and lance-leaved
violet.
Missouri
Missouri
Grassland Habitat Management – (application by Missouri
Prairie Foundation) – Vernon, St. Clair and Dade counties,
Missouri – ($100,000) – The Missouri Prairie Foundation
will use a combination of prescribed fire, grazing, woody species
removal, exotic species eradication, and native species establishment
to enhance habitat for Mead's milkweed,
geocarpon, ground plum, prairie grass pink orchid, and greater prairie
chicken on approximately 1,400 acres of prairie.
Wisconsin
Southern
Wisconsin Prairie Recovery Project – (application by The
Prairie Enthusiasts) – Iowa , Rock, Crawford, Sauk and Dane
counties – ($124,311) – The Prairie Enthusiasts will work
with twenty private landowners, including The Nature Conservancy
and Madison Audubon Society, to accomplish prairie recovery and
enhancement activities to benefit prairie
bush clover, eastern prairie-fringed orchid, and 16 other imperiled
species. The project entails controlling and/or eliminating
invasive native and non-native tree and shrub cover.
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