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Project T-80-D1

Project Title: Strategic Regional Coordination and Implementation for Southern Illinois Conservation Opportunity Areas (COAs) and Streams and Forest Campaigns, as delineated in the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan (WAP)

Community and/or Species Focus:

 Cache River-Cypress Creek, Shawnee National Forest

Goals/Objectives:
  1. Implement restoration practices in collaboration with multiple cooperators
  2. Provide coordination between COAs and the Streams Campaign, and COAs and the Forest and Woodlands Campaign on mutually identified goals
  3. Advance hydrologic and hydraulic understanding of the Cache River in a way that leads to conservation and restoration
Achievements:
  1. ​Worked with partners to develop management and restoration plans and proposals
  2. Proposed restoration measures for fish and mussel species of the Cache River watershed and filled data gaps about the species
  3. Developed strategies for the completion of a long-term West Swamp Structure, which is deemed critical to swamp habitat, and identified areas for riparian restoration

Post-Project Survey (if applicable): n/a

Project Period: 9/1/12 - 11/20/18

Principle Investigator(s):

 Glenn Seeber (Shawnee Resource Conservation & Development)

Final Report:
T-80-D1​