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IMC072
ELIZABETH LAKE
- Location:
- Richmond Township (T46N,R8E) Sections 2,3,10,11
Size: 460 acres (est.)
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid bog (A,B)
- Calcareous floating mat (A,B)
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Graminoid fen (A,B,C)
- Basin marsh (A,B,C)
- Glacial kettle lake (A)
- Pond (B)
- Rare Plants:
- Cardamine pratensis palustris/Cuckoo flower (E)
- Drosera rotundifolia/Round-leaved sundew (E)
- Salix serissima/Autumn willow (E)
- Spiranthes romanzoffiana/Hooded ladies' tresses (E)
- Utricularia intermedia/Flat-leaved bladderwort (E)
- Galium labradoricum/Bog bedstraw (T)
- Epilobium strictum/Downy willow herb (T)
- Rare Animals:
- Etheostoma exile/Iowa darter (E)
- Notropis anogenus/Pugnose shiner (E)
- Notropis heterolepis/Blacknose shiner (E)
- Botaurus lentiginosus/American Bittern (E)
- Chlidonias niger/Black tern (E) & (FED-SC)
- Grus canadensis/Sandhill crane (E)
- Ixobrychus exilis/Least bittern (E)
- Sterna forsteri/Forster’s Tern (E)
- Notropis heterodon/Blackchin shiner (T)
- Fundulus diaphanus/Banded killifish (T)
- Emydoidea blandingii/Blanding's turtle (FED-SC,T)
- Rallus limicola/Virginia rail (W-SU)
- Sorex hoyi/Pygmy shrew (W-SU)
Other Significant Features:
- Outstanding Amerindian archaeological site with artifacts from paleo to modern cultures
- Recognized natural area in Wisconsin (682 additional acres of lake and 48 acres additional wetland)
Protection Status:
- Most protected by MCCD (173-acre dedicated nature preserve)
- Part unprotected
Management Problems:
- Water table alteration (dredged channels)
- Brush expansion
- Narrow leaved cattail expansion
- Power boat intrusions (from lake)
- Hunting and fishing
- Purple loosestrife
- Occasional silt influx and turbidity
