May is American Wetlands Month and Audubon Great Lakes is celebrating by launching a new transformative wetland restoration project aimed at revitalizing Ottawa Sands County Park in Michigan with partners at Ottawa County Sands Park & Recreation and Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Approximately 3,300 linear feet of shoreline will be restored, and the creation of interdunal wetlands spanning approximately 6 acres will provide habitat for diverse wildlife and birds.
Communities throughout the Eastern Lake Michigan region have lost up to 90 percent of their historic wetlands, important natural areas that birds and other wildlife rely on to thrive. Despite massive wetlands loss, the fragmented wetlands and marshes that remain continue to provide critically important habitat for many species of conservation concern including neotropical migrants like the Cerulean Warbler and Prothonotary Warbler and vulnerable marsh birds like the Marsh Wren and Virginia Rail. This project will help to restore important wetlands in the region! Since 2018, Audubon Great Lakes has directly restored 2,000 acres of wetlands across the region, and has helped guide partners in the restoration of an additional 8,000 acres.
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