An Adaptive Management Plan for Increasing Waterfowl Habitat at Harbor Island in Grand Haven, MI

Presentation Type

Oral and/or Visual Presentation

Presenter Major(s)

Natural Resource Management

Mentor Information

Todd Aschenbach, aschenbt@gvsu.edu

Department

Biology

Location

Kirkhof Center 1142

Start Date

13-4-2011 11:30 AM

End Date

13-4-2011 12:00 PM

Keywords

Environment, Physical Science

Abstract

Wetlands have many key ecological functions that have a profound impact on today's society. Wetland fragmentation and land degradation play a role in wetland destruction in West Michigan. I hypothesize that my restoration ideas can improve wetland health and duck habitat. My adaptive management plan will use GIS mapping software to create a map of invasive species locations, duck box positions and also planting locations of new vegetation. This plan could be implemented in order to improve fragmented and degraded wetlands in West Michigan.

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An Adaptive Management Plan for Increasing Waterfowl Habitat at Harbor Island in Grand Haven, MI

Kirkhof Center 1142

Wetlands have many key ecological functions that have a profound impact on today's society. Wetland fragmentation and land degradation play a role in wetland destruction in West Michigan. I hypothesize that my restoration ideas can improve wetland health and duck habitat. My adaptive management plan will use GIS mapping software to create a map of invasive species locations, duck box positions and also planting locations of new vegetation. This plan could be implemented in order to improve fragmented and degraded wetlands in West Michigan.