Biological Inventory for Conservation of Great Lakes Islands: 2002 Inventory and Final Report
Biological Inventory for Conservation of Great Lakes Islands: 2002 Inventory and Final Report Prepared by: Michael R. Penskar, Yu Man Lee, Michael A. Kost, Daria A. Hyde, John J. Paskus, David L. Cuthrell, Helen D. Enander Michigan Natural Features Inventory P.O. Box 30444 Lansing, MI 48909-7944 For: Michigan Coastal Management Program Environmental Science and Services Division Coastal Management Program Grant # 02-309-03 Submitted December 31, 2002 Report Number 2002-27 This project was funded in part under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, with funds provided through the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce and the Michigan Coastal Management Program, Environmental Science and Services Division, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Executive Summary In 1998, Michigan Natural Features Marquette Island did not result in the Inventory (MNFI) initiated a multi-year project identification of occurrences, although several to conduct biological inventories for the areas of potential habitat remain for future conservation of Great Lakes islands. The examination. fundamental goal of this project was to Plant Surveys: Rare plant surveys resulted systematically examine selected Great Lakes in the documentation of five new rare plant islands, compile comprehensive information on occurrences and the updating of nine previously natural features and significant biodiversity known occurrences. New occurrences identified areas, and then convey this information in the for Bois Blanc Island included the federal and most useful form for landowner education and state threatened Houghton’s goldenrod, beauty conservation planning purposes. sedge, Lake Huron tansy, and limestone oak In 2002 MNFI completed a fifth and final fern, the latter constituting the first known year of inventory and conservation outreach.
[Show full text]