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IKA041
FERSON'S CREEK FEN NATURE PRESERVE
- Location:
- St. Charles Township T40N R08E, Sec 21,22,27
Size: 48 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid fen (B)
- Sedge meadow (A,C)
- Streamside marsh (C)
- Unassociated growth (prairie restoration of old field)
- Rare Plants:
- Carex interior/Prairie star sedge
- Carex leptalea/Slender sedge
- Carex prairea/Fen panicled sedge
- Habenaria hyperborea/Northern fringed orchid
- Hypericum pyramidatum/Great St. John's Wort
- Rubus odoratus/Purple-flowering raspberry
- Zizania aquatica/Wild rice
- Rare Animals:
- Euphydryas phaeton/Baltimore checkerspot
- Lycaena hyllus/Bronze copper
- Satyrodes eurydice/Eyed brown
- Hyla crucifer/Spring peeper
- Protonotaria citrea/Prothonotary Warbler
Other Significant Features:
- Located adjacent to Fox River
Protection Status:
- Site is a dedicated Illinois Nature Preserve
- Owned and protected by St. Charles Park District
Management Problems:
- Purple loosestrife present (Galerucella beetles released every year since 1996 for purple loosestrife control)
- Siltation in some areas due to Fox River flooding
- Proximity of State Route 31
- Brush encroachment
- Common reed
