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Mounds View Silver View Park Pond <br />3.5 Stormwater Pond Buffer Existing Cover Type <br />Unmowed herbaceous vegetation cover surrounds Pond EW-4.P3, northwest of Pond EW-4. Cover is <br />primarily dominated by nonnative grasses such as brome and reed canary grass. Native plants that were <br />observed commonly near the water's edge included wild mint, northern water plantain, and beggar's ticks. <br />Other native plants included sensitive fern, giant goldenrod, panicled aster, broadleaf arrowhead, <br />jewelweeds, blue vervain, violets, and a few occurrences of rice cutgrass and American manna grass. <br />Canada thistle was common and purple loosestrife occurred occasionally around the pond as well. <br />Insert zoomed in map of area, so the reader does not have to flip back to the larger map for reference <br />Vegetation Management Goal <br />• Native plant cover with improved water infiltration capacity, wildlife habitat, and native plant <br />diversity. <br />Vegetation Management Objective <br />• Continuous ground cover by diverse native herbaceous species, represented by deep-rooted <br />grasses, sedges, and forbs. <br />Stormwater Pond Buffer Cover Type - Desired Future Conditions Overview <br />NATIVE GROUND COVER <br />Herbaceous <br />(Ground) <br />100 <br />Mesic prairie and woodland edge species on mid- to upper slopes; wet <br />meadow species on lower slopes and within the drai <br />3.6 Wetland Existing Cover Type <br />About 5.5 acres of shrub -swamp and forested wetlands occur in the project area. Along the east side of <br />the south arm of Pond EW-4, the forested wetland had canopy cover by cottonwoods and boxelder with <br />buckthorn below. Much of the remaining wetland cover was degraded Willow -Dogwood Shrub Swamp. <br />Shrub/sapling cover was generally less than 50% and dominated by invasive shrubs, common and glossy <br />buckthorn, and invasive, nonnative cattails, purple loosestrife, and reed canary grass. Native sandbar <br />willow, red -osier dogwood, and Bebb's willow occurred occasionally. The wetland had scattered canopy <br />cover by cottonwood, elm, boxelder, and quaking aspen, providing less than 25% canopy cover overall. <br />Native plants in the herbaceous layer included swamp smartweed, giant goldenrod, panicled aster, starry <br />false Solomon's seal, fowl manna grass, clearweed, sensitive fern, small -spike false nettle, bristly sedge, <br />and monkeyflower. Herbaceous cover was sparse under thickets of buckthorn. <br />Project Number: 193806465 17 <br />