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IMC052
STICKNEY RUN
- Location:
- Nunda Township (T44N,R8E) Sections 1,2,11,12,13,
14,23,24; (T44N,R9E) Sections 18,19
Size: 1050 acres (est.)
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Calcareous seep (C)
- Graminoid fen (C)
- Sedge meadow (C)
- Streamside marsh (A,B,C)
- Low shrub bog (C)
- Dry gravel prairie (C)
- Loamy, wet prairie (C)
- Rare Plants:
- Asclepias lanuginosa/Woolly milkweed (E)
- Carex oligosperma/Sedge (E)
- Carex cryptolepis/Small yellow sedge (E)
- Rorippa islandica hispida/Hairy marsh cress (E)
- Triglochin palustris/Slender bog arrow-grass (E)
- Carex utriculata/Beaked sedge (T)
- Chamaedaphne calyculata/Leatherleaf (T)
- Eleocharis rostellata/Beaked spike rush (T)
- Lathyrus ochroleucus/Pale vetchling (T)
- Cacalia suaveolens/Sweet Indian plantain (W-SU)
- Hippuris vulgaris/Mare's tail (NS-very rare,
proposed E)
- Rare Animals:
- Grus canadensis/Sandhill crane (E)
- Ixobrychus exilis/Least bittern (E)
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus/Yellow headed blackbird (E)
- Gallinula chloropus/Common moorhen (T)
- Podilymbus podiceps/Pied billed grebe (T)
- Porzana carolina/Sora (W-SU)
- Rallus limicola/Virginia rail (W-SU)
- Emydoidea blandingii/Blanding's turtle (FED-SC,T)
Other Significant Features:
- Spring run
- Excellent example of knob and kettle topography
Protection Status:
- Parts protected by MCCD and IDNR
- Parts unprotected
Management Problems:
- Purple loosestrife
- Canary grass
- Brush encroachment
- Water table alteration (ditching, drain tile systems, channelization of Stickney Run)
- Beaver dams
- Narrow-leaved cattail
- Nun-off (from roads)
- Soil erosion
- Siltation
- Development (private parcels)
- Herbicide drift
- Unnatural flooding regime (levee, lowered water tables)
- Common reed
