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IMC058
WEINGART ROAD SEDGE MEADOW
- Location:
- McHenry Township (T45N,R9E) Sections 8,17,18
Size: 85 acres
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Basin marsh (B,C)
- Rare Plants:
- Carex utriculata/Sedge (T)
- Galium labradoricum/Bog bedstraw (T)
- Rare Animals:
- none
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Part protected by MCCD (44.6 acre dedicated nature preserve)
- Part unprotected
Management Problems:
- Purple loosestrife
- Cattail expansion
- Run-off (from roads, bordering uplands)
- Mowing and clay skeet pollution (south end at skeet shoot)
- Man made ponds (altered water levels)
