LAKESHORE NATURAL RESOURCES PARTNERSHIP INC.: Sheboygan County Collaborative Phragmites Project - Phase 1

The Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership is sponsoring a project to control Phragmites populations in Eastern Sheboygan county. The project will be focused on areas east of State highway 57, and will exclude areas funded by other grants (the Lake Michigan shoreline north of the Pidgeon river, as well as the Pidgeon River corridor).

Project activities include: 1) Joining data that is currently scattered amongst the different organizations that have collected it into on collaborative GIS-based web mapping platform; 2) collaboration with Stantec and UW-Green Bay on a large-scale research project by collecting and utilizing data from sites associated with this project; 3) Initial treatments of Phragmites, as well as follow-up treatments of stands that had been treated in 2017; 4) Identification of suitable re-vegetation sites and installation of native vegetation; 5) On a community level (private landowners, non-profits, local governments), identify and implement long term control strategies; 6) Dissemination of materials for educational and outreach purposes; 7) Limit the spread of Phragmites by training local governments, who will then conduct long-term control strategies on road ROWs and other public properties.

Activities

• APM Chemical Permit Request