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FY 1999 Great Lakes Projects
Purple Loosestrife Control Strategies
for Urban Wetlands
| Purple Loosestrife Control Strategies for Urban
Wetlands (GL975140-01-0: $68,988) |
| Recipient: City of Chicago, Department of
Environment |
| Project Period:10/1/99 to 9/30/00 |
| Project Officer: Duane Heaton (312-886-6399) |
The grant will allow the City of Chicago to devise and implement a
strategy of manual, biological, and chemical controls specifically suited
to the urbanized wetlands of the Lake Calumet region. The biological
control will utilize two leaf-eating beetles (Galerucella pusilla
and G. calmariensis); the chemical control will consist of
herbicide treatment. Efforts will focus on a single site, the Indian Ridge
Marsh (approximately 140 acres). |
