Scroll down or click here to go to abstract.
Click map to go to full resolution image.
IMC065
ALDEN SEDGE MEADOW
- Location:
- Alden Township (T46N,R6E) Sections 10,11,14,15
Size: 520 acres (est.)
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid fen (A,B)
- Calcareous seep (A,B)
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Basin marsh (B,C)
- Glacial flow through lake (C)
- Low gradient stream (B) (see MAIN BRANCH NIPPERSINK CREEK)
- Rare Plants:
- Triglochin maritima/Common bog arrow-grass (E)
- Carex utriculata/Beaked sedge (T)
- Galium labradoricum/Bog bedstraw (T)
- Carex limosa/Muck sedge (NS - very rare, propsed E)
- Rare Animals:
- Grus canadensis/Sandhill crane (E)
- Emydoidea blandingii/Blanding's turtle (FED-SC,T)
- Sorex hoyi/Pigmy shrew (W-SU)
- Rallus limicola/Virginia rail (W-SU)
- Porzana carolina/Sora rail (W-SU)
Other Significant Features:
- Outstanding Amerindian archaeological site
- Spring runs
Protection Status:
- Part protected by MCCD
- Part unprotected
Management Problems:
- Brush encroachment
- Canary grass
- Beaver flooding
- Lowered stream flow and lake level
- Water table lowered (tile system)
