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Lake
Puckaway undergoing Shorland Restoration Project
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The Lake Puckaway Protection and Rehabilitation District announces a shoreland restoration program. This program will promote the establishment of natural vegetation buffers along the shores of Lake Puckaway to protect and restore water quality and fish and wildlife habitat. Buffers with native vegetation have deep roots that hold in the soil, preventing or slowing erosion. The plants offer cover and food for songbirds and other wildlife, while at the same time deterring Canada geese from using adjacent lawns. Buffers also intercept sediment and nutrients that can cloud the water and cause algal blooms.
The District will cost share ten pilot projects around the lake that will contain different types of plantings and erosion control elements. The grants will be competitive, based on the type of restoration and landowner commitment and match. The district will be taking applications through November 25th. Work should be completed by the end of the 2012 growing season. |
Home of 38 pound Wisconsin state record Northern, Lake Puckaway is a 9x2 Mile shallow
water lake. It encompasses 5433 acres of water and is an
excellent recreation lake, with activities including fishing,
swimming, boating, and duck hunting.
Game
fish include Walleye, Northern Pike, Large-mouth Bass, Bluegill,
Crappie, and Perch.
Lake
Puckaway's water depth will accommodate essentially every boat with an
outboard engine, and many with inboard/outboard (especially in spring
when the water is high).
Puckaway
is early-on in the Fox River chain, a river which starts around
Portage, WI and empties into Green Bay of Lake Michigan.
The background photo of Lake Puckaway is looking west. The village
of Marquette is on the left side.
The Fox River (lower right) is the outlet of the lake and flows toward
the
Princeton dam, which is about 6- miles downstream from the lake. Photo
taken June 4, 1987. |
