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ILA027
CEDAR LAKE
- Location:
- Lake Villa Twp. T46N R10E, SEQ SEC 31, SEC 32, WH SEC 33
Size: 342 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid bog (B)
- Basin marsh (C)
- Kettle lake (B)
- Carex diandra (collected in 1942)
- Rare Plants:
- Bidens beckii/Beck water-marigold (E)
- Drosera rotundifolia/Round-leaved sundew (E)
- Vaccinium macrocarpon/Large cranberry (E)
- Epilobium strictum/Downy willow-herb (T)
- Galium labradoricum/Bog bedstraw (T)
- Potamogeton gramineus/Grass-leaved pondweed (E)
- Potamogeton praelongus/White-stem pondweed (E)
- Potamogeton robbinsii/Fern pondweed (E)
- Rhynchospora alba/Beaked rush (T)
- Rare Animals:
- Notropis heterodon/Blackchin shiner (T)
- Notropis heterolepis/Blacknose shiner (E)
- Fundulus diaphanus/Banded killifish (T)
- Fundulus dispar/Northern starhead topminnow (W)
- Etheostoma exile/Iowa darter (E)
Other Significant Features:
- Outstanding example of a glacial lake in Illinois
Protection Status:
- Portions protected by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (dedicated nature preserve and formally recognized natural area)
- ADID #38
Management Problems:
- Significant declines in the quality of native plant communities present at this site and viable populations of threatened and endangered species due to the aggessive replacement by the exotic Buckthorns (Rhamnus cathartica and R.. frangula) and Reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)
- Dense residential development of the lakeshore threatens water quality: runoff of nutrients.
