Another element in Sheboygan County's expanding wetlands mitigation program should be complete by year's end. The Wisconsin DNR on Tuesday announced t.
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MOUNT PLEASANT â The Meachem Road Restoration Project, which aims to restore 60 acres of wetlands east of Meachem Road and across from Sanders Park, is one step closer to seeing full growth.
About 44,000 trees of more than 20 species are set to be planted in the Mount Pleasant preserve, according to a press release from the Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network.
The goal is to have the 60 acres restored to âpre-settlementâ conditions. The project is critical to addressing many watershed threats identified in the Pike River Watershed Plan, which include harmful storm water runoff, stream bank erosion, loss of open space/natural habitat and the presence of invasive species.
More than 40 acres of former farmland northwest of Portage will be restored to wetland next year, the first Columbia County property to join the stateâs Wetland Mitigation Program.
Owner Mark Heinze bought the land in Lewiston township a few years ago to grow corn, alfalfa and soybeans, but the wet ground wasnât ideal for farming even though that had been its use since at least the 1870s, Heinze said. When his family heard that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was interested in getting more land for wetland easements, they thought it made sense â both practically and financially â to offer theirs.