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IMC053
THE HOLLOWS/LAKE KILLARNEY
- Location:
- Algonquin Township (T43N,R8E) Sections 2,11
Size: 360 acres (est)
- Natural Resources:
- Communities:
- Sedge meadow (C)
- Dry mesic woodland (C)
- Glacial kettle lake (B)
- Rare Plants:
- Carex viridula /Little green sedge (E)
- Juncus alpinus/Richardson's rush (E)
- Galium labradoricum/Bog bedstraw (T)
- Lathyrus ochroleucus/Pale vetchling (T)
- Rare Animals:
- Etheostoma exile/Iowa darter (E)
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Part protected by MCCD, part unprotected
Management Problems:
- Brush encroachment
- Succession (in sand flats)
- Cattail density increase
- Lawn nutrient runoff to lake
- Purple loosestrife
- Common reed
