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On Wednesday September 18th a group of 15 Friends of the Maple River participated in a field trip tour of a Michigan Department of Transportation Mitigation Wetland project in Gratiot County. The wetland area was located west of Highway US-127 on Garfield road, just North of the M-57 interchange.
The field trip was led by Mr. Michael Pennington Wetlands Mitigation Specialist with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. The 40+ acre wetlands was former farmland that was converted back to a wetland.
This project is an example of the State Highway Department’s program to replace wetlands that have been destroyed by a highway project. These mitigation projects can be located anywhere within the same watershed.