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Wildlife
Viewing Areas/Natural Areas
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Wildlife can be found in niches in urban areas. But most
wildlife have specialized habitat needs and require large
unfragranted areas of land. Urbanization and sprawl threatens
these areas.
Some areas in and around the watershed have been preserved
and offer recreational activities, such as hiking and bird
watching. Click here
to learn more.
Click here
to view a map of natural areas in the watershed.
A 1976 environmental assessment of the Kalamazoo-Black-Macatawa-Paw
Paw River Basin identified localities in the Portage Arcadia
Creek Watershed "possessing rare or scarce species or having
sizeable populations of species characteristic of northern
ecosystems."
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Location
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Habitat
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Species
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| Colony Farm Tract Kalamazoo Section 31 |
grassland, thicket
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bobolink, Eastern meadowlark, savannah sparrow, Henslow sparrow |
Asylum Lake Kalamazoo
Section 30 |
oak savannah, lake, marsh, field, thicket
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red-tail hawk, spotted turtle, red-headed woodpecker |
| Kleinstuck Preserve Kalamazoo Section 16 |
bog, marsh, conifer plantation, deciduous
forest, thicket
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sora rail, green heron, scarlet tanager, cardinal, song sparrow,
blue jay, rich area for migration of warblers and land birds |
| Portage Creek Area Kalamazoo Sections 27, 34 Portage Section
3 Miller Road South to Interstate 94 |
stream, marsh, thicket
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queen snake, wintering waterfowl, kingfisher |
The Al Sabo Preserve and the Hampton Lake Area were identified
as preserve areas.
Source: Western Michigan University. Institute
of Public Affairs. Environmental Assessment of the Kalamazoo-Black-Macatawa-Paw
Paw Basin. April, 1976.
Click on links below to learn how to attract wildlife to your home
or schoolyard.
http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat
http://www.nwf.org/schoolyardhabitats
http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/ecopage
http://www.for-wild.org
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