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Coastal Wetlands

Primary Coastal Wetlands

M-06.  

Kohler Andrae

Back to Southern Lake Michigan

Counties: Sheboygan

Photos:

Kohler Andrae Area, 20 Oct. 2000. Dunes and swales. Dominant grasses are marram grass and sand-reed.

Site Description

This site includes the Kohler Park Dunes State Natural Area.

Lake Michigan Pine Hardwoods Dune Forest is a linear forest zone along Lake Michigan contiguous with the state park. It consists of many tracts of small ownerships with lakefront homes. White pine 12" - 20" is dominant with red oak, white birch, beech, sugar maple and others. Toward the Black River on the west are ash-white cedar swamps and alder thickets. There are some hemlocks in the area.. Many rare plants, including some endemic to the western Great Lakes, and a few rare animals are present.


Additional Comments

This is the largest dune complex on Wisconsin's western shore of Lake Michigan and provides habitat for many highly specialized plants, some of which are endemic to Great Lakes shorelines.
Last Revised: October 10, 2005