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"Sedge meadows are not supposed to be floating," explains [Russ Hefty], the city of Madison's conservation resource supervisor. "They're only floating because we've raised the water level of the marsh."
"But here," he says, "it can't spread laterally because the water's too deep.""Somebody's got to address this in some way," says Greg Fries, a principle engineer with the city. "We've maxed out here."See the full content of this document
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Getting Too High On the Lake
Russ Hefty paddles his kayak out to a floating chunk of sedge meadow connected tenuously to Cherokee Marsh - not by roots but by surface vegetation. A heavy rain or strong storm might be all it takes to make this chunk break off and float away, as have hundreds of acres of Lake ...
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