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IKE008
MILLHURST FEN
- Location:
- T36N R06E, Sec 04
Size: 20 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid Fen (B,C)
- Calcareous Seeps & Spring (B,C)
- Loamy Wet Mesic Shrubland (C)
- Rare Plants:
- Mimulus glabratus/Yellow monkey flower (E)
- Eleocharis rostellata/Wicket spike rush (T)
- Triglochin palustris/Arrow-grass (T)
- Juglans cinerea/Butternut (W-SC)
- Rare Animals:
- none
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Private Illinois Natural Area. Landowner contact has been made.
Management Problems:
- Site is threatened by siltation from adjacent agricultural lands and has an overgrowth of cattails
- Phragmites is expanding
- Site was severely disturbed in 1998 by pipeline project when directional drilling was used to bypass the fen. Drilling material oozed into the fen and spring run, coating vegetation and aquatic animals
- The Illinois Nature Preserves Commission is working towards securing the natural features
- Water cress invasion in spring runs
