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RESTORATION GOALS <br />Given that the site was purchased with funds from the LSOHC, the main use of the property <br />will be for hunting. Thus, the main goal of this restoration will be to create healthy habitats <br />that support wildlife. Healthy ecosystems will support a variety of wildlife, and not just <br />those targeted for hunting. Toward achieving this goal, restoration will aim to improve the <br />diversity, composition and structure of the plant communities throughout the property, <br />which will also better reflect what would have been present at the time of European <br />settlement. This includes the addition of habitat (prairie and savanna) th t has been <br />historically decimated throughout the state, but does not mean that th oration will go <br />out of its way to convert current natural communities to what maykcit <br />en present in <br />the past. However, adding new habitat and restoring degraded aprove the <br />ecological functions that both historic native plant communiti nhealthy <br />communities provide, including: <br />habitat for a diversity of wildlife species, <br />nutrient and water cycling, <br />carbon storage, <br />moderation of water -table levels, <br />erosion control, <br />filtration of nutrients, sediments <br />development and enrichment of <br />local temperature moderation. <br />Though degraded by past <br />species and could be read <br />much greater wildlife vJ <br />less susceptible to <br />cover detains a good variety of native <br />aHyl diverse plant community can provide <br />nd tends to be much more stable, and <br />other disturbances. <br />'re developed for each land cover area, with the overall <br />)cusfflWrotecting and restoring high quality habitat by <br />;ies, r,poring savanna/prairie, and providing pollinator and <br />s include the following, and should be attained by the fifth year <br />stems over Y2 inch diameter to <10% on site by the end of the <br />2) The 168 acres of cropland will be converted to native prairie with 90% coverage of <br />native species by the fifth year. <br />2a) The prairie restoration will have at least 25 native pollinator plant species, including an <br />abundance of milkweed species, and these plants will have at least 30% coverage in the <br />prairie. <br />Friends of the Mississippi W. H. Houlton Conservation Area NRMP <br />61 <br />