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IMC003
BATES FEN
- Location:
- Nunda Township (T44N,R9E) Sections 30,31,32
Size: 810 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid fen (A,B,C)
- Dry mesic woodland (C)
- Streamside marsh (B,C)
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Rare Plants:
- Rorippa islandica hispida/hairy marsh cress (E)
- Triglochin palustris/Slender bog arrow-grass (E)
- Utricularia intermedia/Flat-leaved bladderwort (E)
- Carex utriculata/Beaked sedge (T)
- Galium labradoricum/Bog bedstraw (T)
- Rare Animals:
- Botaurus lentiginosus/American bittern (E)
- Grus candensis/Sandhill crane (E)
- Rallus elegans/King Rail (T)
- Catharus fuscescens/Veery (T)
- Rallus limicola/Virginia rail (W-SU)
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Protected by MCCD (part as 180 acre dedicated nature preserve)
Management Problems:
- Brush invasion
- Water table alteration (past stream channelization, ditches and tile systems)
- Canary grass
- Purple loostrife
- Common reed
- Beginner’s pondweed
- Beaver dam-building
- Golf course run-off
- Groundwater chemistry alteration (golf course fertilization)
