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Point au Sauble Vegetation Survey
Cofrin Grant recipient Brad Herrick counts plants within a sampling quadrat.
UW Green Bay graduate student Brad Herrick received a
Cofrin Arboretum Research Grant last
summer to develop a permanent vegetation survey program at Point
au Sable, a prominent peninsula located on the east shore of Lower
Green Bay. This natural area preserves one of the few unmodified estuarine
wetlands in the entire Lake Michigan ecosystem. Herrick conducted a baseline
survey of the vegetation at Point au Sauble. The purpose of this research
was to construct permanent sampling plots to be used in a long-term monitoring
program. The data collected will be used to construct Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) maps and to monitor changes in the vegetation composition
of this natural area.
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Last
updated on
May 9, 2014