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kock\otk 0 KJOLFIAUG ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES COMPANY 011140Or providing Sound. Balanced, Comprehenrive.Natural Resource Solutions MEMORANDUM To: Mike Quigley Gor -EM Front: Mark Kjolhaug Date: September 13, 1999 Re: Open Space Management Plan for Clearwater Creek 3rd Addition 1 General Approach and Strategy The following items represent general strategies utilized in developing area specific recommendations for restoration: 1. Reseed all areas disturbed by project grading with native prairie seed. mixtures — wet or rnesic — as appropriate. Manage these areas with mowing, chemical, and fire treatments until community is fully established. Long -term management by City could include spot chemical treatments as necessary, burns, or mowing. 2.. Kill existing weedy herbaceous plant communities and replace them with native prairie seed mixtures — wet ormesic — as appropriate. Manage these areas with mowing, chemical. and fire treatments until community is fully established. Long- term management by City could include spot chemical treatments as necessary, burns, or mowing. 3. Protect wooded areas and scattered significant trees. Remove invasive shrubs to allow for recovery of native herbaceous communities. Long -term management by the City would include monitoring and removal of invasive shrubs. 4: Protect quality wetlands with buffers and filter strips. Use signage to minimize dumping and mowing within wetland and buffers. Long -term management by City would include monitoring and enforcement. 5. Restore /supplement wetland hydrology when possible by blocking ditches or outleting storm water ponds. Wetland restorations, which affect wetlands on adjacent properties, are not recommended. 6. Restore herbaceous wetland plant communities when prudent by spraying, scraping, and reseeding. 4747 Richmond Road, Mound. Minnesota 55364 • Phone, 6r2- 472`4875 • Faxt 61.-a-.472 -I 0+0 c\I