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| Title: | Winding Willows: An Ecological Blueprint for Wetland Restoration and Cattail Remediation |
| Authors: | Campbell, Angela |
| Keywords: | wetland restoration
cattail invasion |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2009 |
| Abstract: | A restoration plan for a series of wetland ponds and bioswales at the University
of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens was developed in order
to return the quality and self sustaining properties that have been compromised
due to sedimentation and cattail invasion. The dredging plan
for Parker Pond shall remove large areas of sedimentation now overgrown
with vegetation and improve water quality by allowing it to circulate
throughout the entire pond area. Several methods to remove and aggressively
combat the invasion of the narrow-leafed Cattail and the hybrid
Cattail (Typha angustifolia and T. x glauca) such as prescribed burning,
water level modifications, and chemical and physical control such as
herbicides, cutting, and crushing, shading, and a combination of several
of these were researched. It was determined that mechanical cutting
of the cattails in the fall followed by a spring flooding and fall drawdown
for planting would achieve the greatest success at Willow Pond. A variety
of native shrubs, grasses, forbs, sedges and rushes shall be planted
along the banks of Parker and Willow Ponds in order to serve as erosion
and cattail control, create micro habitats, and assimilate pollutants from
Fleming Creek while serving as an alluring space for the public to enjoy.
Many of the these plants are repeated in a bioswale plan to filter pollutants
within runoff from the adjacent parking area for MBGNA. |
| Appears in Collections: | Natural Resources and Environment, School of (SNRE)
Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's)
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