NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):
Sustain our Great Lakes Program
Project Title: Collaborative Invasive Species Control and Native Restoration in Wisconsin's Great Lakes Basin
Organization:
Glacierland Resource Conservation & Development Council
Project ID:
0501.22.075082
Description:

Implement a regional landscape-level approach to managing Phragmites and Japanese Knotweed on ecologically sensitive communities including Lake Michigan and Lake Winnebago shorelines and coastal wetlands, inland waterways and connecting wetlands and roadside ditches. Project will continue and expand control efforts and will restore 859 acres and retreat 550 acres to improve ecosystem services for the native plants and animals that depends on them.

Award Amount:
$375000.00
Location:
This project will manage target invasive species across Wisconsin's Calumet, Fond du Lac, Kewaunee and Ozaukee counties, targeting ecologically sensitive communities including shorelines and coastal wetlands, inland waterways and connected wetlands, isolated wetlands and roadside ditches.