Northeast
Wisconsin Land Trust purchased the 48 acre Guckenberg-Sturm Preserve,
also known as the Stroebe Island Marsh, in Menasha, Wisconsin. The Preserve is situated
uniquely; it is located along the west shore of Little Lake Butte des
Morts and bordered on the north by Mud Creek at the point of its
convergence with the Fox River as it travels northeast into Lake
Michigan’s largest bay, Green Bay. The preserve is also adjacent to, as
well as on, Stroebe Island.
The
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has classified Mud Creek, the
Fox River, and Little Lake Butte des Morts as Areas of Special Natural
Resource Interest (ASNRI) waters. Because of this, the Guckenberg-Sturm
Preserve is recognized as important opportunity to maintain the health
of the water flowing into Lake Michigan.
The
marsh and surrounding floodplain forests represents one of the last
remaining pristine, open cattail marshes found along the Lower Fox River
drainage. This habitat type originally covered thousands of acres
throughout the Fox River system, but the dramatic increases in water
levels through dam construction and high speed motorized boat traffic,
effectively destroyed over 99 percent of the original cattail marsh by
1965. This remaining high quality habitat is now very rare and continues
to provide critical food and cover for a myriad of wetland species
trying to continue their life cycles surrounded by the pressures of land
development and severe habitat destruction.
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