Name: Fix Unit Trail
Rating: 3.0

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Features Birding · Fall Colors · Spring · Views · Wildflowers · Wildlife

Closed during hunting days during early morning and late afternoon.

Need to Know

The parking lot and trail is mixed gravel. There are no restroom facilities.

Description

The Fix Unit is mostly former agricultural land that is now fallowed and will be made more consistently wet by a series of water control structures and a pump to be installed in 2016. This unit is adjacent to the Michigan Nature Association’s Swan Creek Plant Preserve which has abundant American lotus.

Flora & Fauna

The eastern section has an interesting wet prairie community of blue-joint and reed canary grass, Phragmites, and characteristic wildflowers in these types of habitats including boneset, grass-leaved goldenrod, swamp milkweed, spotted joe-pye weed, and others. Deer, muskrats, eagles, hawks, and pollinators habitat the area.