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IMC016
CRYSTAL LAKE
- Location:
- Grafton Township (T43N,R7E) Section 1
- Algonquin Township (T43N,R8E) Section 6
Size: 230 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Glacial kettle lake (C)
- Rare Plants:
- Potamogeton gramineus/Grass-leaved pondweed (E)
- Rare Animals:
- Etheostoma exile/Iowa darter (E)
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Informally protected by private owners
Management Problems:
- Intensive recreational use
- Motorboat impacts to vegetation and water quality
- Lawn chemical pollution
- Lack of shoreline emergent vegetation
- Eurasian milfoil
- Spiny naiad
