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IMC076
GENOA CITY WETLANDS AND BARRENS
- Location:
- Richmond Township (T46N,R8E) Sections 4,5,6,8
Size: 360 acres (est.)
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Loamy, dry mesic shrubland (C)
- Graminoid fen (B)
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Basin marsh (B,C)
- Low gradient stream (A) (See NORTH BRANCH NIPPERSINK CREEK)
- Rare Plants:
- Carex utriculata/Beaked sedge (T)
- Galium labradoricum/Bog bedstraw (T)
- Rare Animals:
- Grus canadensis/Sandhill crane (E)
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus/Yellow-headed blackbird (E)
- Porzana carolina/Sora (W-SU)
- Rallus limicola/Virginia Rail (W-SU)
- Glaucopsyche lygdamus/Silvery blue (W-SC)
Other Significant Features:
Protection Status:
- Part informally protected by private landowners
- Part leased to MCCD by METRA
- Part unprotected
Management Problems:
- Cattail expansion
- Canary grass expansion
- Brush encroachment
- Water pollution from Genoa City
- Tollway construction
- Water table alteration (ditch, tile drainage)
- Upland Eurasian meadow grass and forb expansion
- Agricultural runoff
