Aug 26, 2024 · The Saginaw Bay to Western Lake Erie Coastal Wetland Conservation Blueprint is a voluntary, partnership-driven plan for enhancing and restoring coastal wetlands that provide essential benefits for communities of people and wildlife in Michigan and Ohio.

Oct 28, 2014 · Coastal wetlands are indeed nature’s form of the Swiss Army knife. Across the Great Lakes, coastal wetlands provide habitat for fish and birds, filter pollutants from water, and protect our coasts from storms, water level fluctuations and …

Coastal wetlands in western Lake Erie provide habitat, serve as natural buffers against flooding and wave energy, and filter drinking water for more than 11 million people in the area. The wetlands are dynamic, shifting inland and lakeward in response to cycles in lake levels.

Saginaw Bay to Western Lake Erie Coastal Wetland Conservation Blueprint What is it? The Blueprint is a regional conservation strategy for protecting, enhancing, and restoring wetlands from the thumb region of Lake Huron to western basin of …

The western Lake Erie basin was once home to an extensive wetland larger than the Everglades but has lost 95 percent of its original area. Easily restorable wetland areas must be identified if resource managers are to reestablish the resource and improve conservation efforts.

Jan 1, 1992 · Coastal wetlands of Lake Erie fall into three categories, depending on the type of protection available to the wetland vegetation: (1) coastal lagoons behind barrier beaches, (2) managed marshes protected by earthern and rip-rap dikes, and (3) estuarine tributary mouths.

At least 37 significant plant species are found in the coastal wetlands of Lake Erie (W. Bakowsky, pers. com.). The rare and endangered Pennsylvania smartweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum var. eglandulosum) is endemic to the Erie Islands in western Lake Erie (Herdendorf, 1987).

Coastal wetlands provide habitat for birds, spawning fish, and a diversity of amphibians, reptiles, insects, and plants. They are the most biodiverse habitats in Lake Erie, and provide critical stopover and breeding habitat for local migratory birds.

coastal wetland conservation community to identify the highest priority, resilient, coastal wetland conservation projects. The LCD geography extends from Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron (northernmost terminus is Tawas Point, MI) to Western Lake Erie (southern terminus is Old Woman Creek, OH).

Oct 11, 2024 · The $1.9 million Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration Program Port Clinton Coastal Restoration Project has expanded costal wetland – a rarity along Ohio’s Lake Erie Shoreline – by...