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Wetland Natural Community Descriptions 1,14fid Man .gem etit <br />'Recommendations <br />N-Much of the original alterations to the wetland basins occurred N%,-hen the land was in agricultural <br />Toai W] thru W' <br />production, U' Ilder agiricultural land--use there %,v as a main di tch that extiended 1* <br />k_ <br />W 4. and i mo '\V 10, 1_,,atera I d itches extended i mo t lie nia in d i tc h from W.-I - Weflan ds hi-Live <br />experienced addiLionat changes &H-111V tile transition fr'om agriculture to urban dtN,,� elopme tit in <br />r; -ater aretis ,ind the <br />the lasL sixty �, ears. NVI has been altered through Lh��., e��clm Mlon of open NA,.� <br />infestation ofpurple loose strife and reed can arv, rass, Wetlands W?, W'. NV4. and W� W'ere Part <br />it r i au. r t C U I t U I•CA I d r• ditch S,Vste"I 3111 11,'AVL' hC1101ted by the return ofhydrology to the <br />T'he wed,,m& oil Lhe south tip ofl_akc Owasso i,.Ire relatively unchaneed. Bennett L,ake <br />syswni, <br />is changed significatittv trom a drained Nvefland to Iffli open wtiter lak-e. Stormwater and urban. <br />runoff has probably influenced this change. t.,ocations of the improvements discussed in the <br />01 <br />f(Allowing P.,.Wagraphs are shi -,)wn in figLffe 6, 4, <br />Commun,ity CP-W1 <br />Shallow Marsh/Shrub-Carr/Shallow Open Water <br />Qualitative Rank: Low <br />Area: 32.0 acres (38.4 total) <br />1"his wettand coniplex contains, severe l diffi erent xvedand comm unifies, including shallow marsh, <br />open watier, shrub-ictarr and we meadow. 17he different wetland communities provide the <br />valrabic �,ildfife habitat and aesthetic values that the users of the park enjoy. Dominant <br />ve 0 w'thin the wiefland complex include: cattall. arrowhead. reed canary grass. bur-reed, <br />Igetation i <br />red osier dogwood, willow, and duckweed <br />This is a lar �b in associated with the interpretive center in Lhe park. It has a <br />Ige �veflandl as' <br />boardwalk system providing access to most of the wedand and appetirs to be heavily used by the <br />^ IF <br />public. as Fivc are of cluck on excavations are near the center of the basin. '1111s basin also <br />relcleivies stiomiwater and may receive, chemical runoff from, roads, houses on east side, and the <br />compost site on the west side, '17his basin has the iliost prolific area of purple loosestrife <br />9 <br />infestation of all the parks surveyed and is considered to have a high density of purple <br />[Olosestrife. <br />(".11tv (,!f Rosevifle <br />Parks ..Valural Resoinve Ifanagrenzent <br />