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IMC085
LANGE ROAD BOG
- Location:
- Hebron Township (T46N,R7E) Sections 11,12
Size: 180 acres (est.)
- Natural Resources
- Communities:
- Graminoid bog (C)
- Calcareous floating mat (B)
- Sedge meadow (B,C)
- Basin marsh (B,C)
- Loamy, mesic prairie (C)
- Rare Plants:
- Sparganium chlorocarpum/Green-fruited burreed (E)
- Carex cryptolepis/Small yellow sedge (E)
- Rare Animals:
- Grus canadensis/Sandhill Crane (E)
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus/Yellow-headed Blackbird (E)
- Gallinula chloropus/Common Moorhen (T)
- Podylimbus podiceps/Pied-billed Grebe (T)
Other Significant Features:
- Exceptional concentration of boreal wetland plants
Protection Status:
- Part informally protected by private owner
- Part unprotected
Management Problems:
- Lowered water table
- Purple loosestrife
- Potential for destructive peat fire
- Cattail overabundance and expansion
- Agricultural runoff
- Reed canary grass
