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IMC055
THUNDERBIRD HUNT CLUB
- Location:
- Nunda Township (T44N,R8E) Sections 22,23,26,27
Size: 380 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid fen (B,C)
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Streamside marsh (B,C)
- Rare Plants:
- none
- Rare Animals:
- Chlidonias niger/Black tern (E)
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus/Yellow-headed blackbird (E)
- Gallinula chloropus/Common moorhen (T)
- Grus canadensis/Sandhill crane (E)
- Porzana carolina/Sora (W-SU)
- Rallus limicola/Virginia rail (W-SU)
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Informally protected as hunt club
Management Problems:
- Hydrological alteration (past tiling, current impoundment, and annual drawdowns creating abnormal marsh cycle)
- Brush invasion (buckthorns)
- Purple loosestrife
- Reed canary grass
- Narrow-leaved cattail expansion
