Restore and enhance biodiversity and habitat complexity in the Cheboygan Marsh-Duncan Bay Great Lakes coastal wetland complex by removing invasive cattail from 92 acres. Project will increase diversity of plants, amphibians, macroinvertebrates, fish, and birds within the coastal wetland complex, and result in the removal of 1,850 pounds of elemental phosphorus and 12,125 pounds of elemental nitrogen from the Great Lakes ecosystem.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Sustain our Great Lakes Program
Project Title: Enhancing Biodiversity and Habitat Complexity in Cheboygan Marsh through Hybrid Cattail Control (MI)
Organization:
Loyola University Chicago
Project ID:
0501.20.067939
Description:
Award Amount:
$185215.01
Location:
Cheboygan Marsh (City of Cheboygan) and Duncan Bay (Little Traverse Conservancy), Michigan