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IMC034
LARSEN PRAIRIE AND FEN
- Location:
- Algonquin Township (T43N,R8E) Section 21
Size: 20 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid fen (B)
- Dry gravel prairie (B,C)
- Loamy, wet prairie (B)
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Rare Plants:
- none
- Rare Animals:
- none
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Part protected by MCCD
- Part unprotected but idle and managed with remainder
Management Problems:
- Water table lowered
- Exotic forbs and grasses (bluegrass, sweet clover, wild parsnip)
- Brush expansion
- Siltation (run-off adjacent)
- Beaver backflooding
