Site Data

36.5 acres (forested and non-forested) Due to the complex nature of the Inter-Agency Review process and the relatively small size of this site, the Foundation would consider making the Fish Creek site available as a individual or consolidated mitigation project. Please contact the Foundation if this possibility may meet your mitigation needs.

Habitat

Wetlands Restoration:

  • Forested Wetlands
  • Scrub/Shrub Wetlands
  • Shallow Emergent Wetlands

Wetlands Enhancement

Riparian Upland Buffer Enhancement

Service Area

  • Cuyahoga River watershed (8-digit HUC 04110002)

Stewardship

Long-term owner and managing partner:

The 36.5-acre site is located in the City of Kent, Portage County, Ohio within the Cuyahoga River watershed. The area is located within the Erie/Ontario Drift and Lake Plain ecoregion. The Fish Creek site was used in the past for vegetable farming but was left fallow for many years. The presence of this site within an urbanized area presents a unique opportunity to restore an urban wetland for use as compensatory mitigation.

Most of the existing wetlands on the site are dominated by large colonies of invasive species such as Phalaris arundinacea (reed canary grass), Phragmites australis (common reed), and Typha spp. (cattail). The project will restore this degraded wetlands complex into a diverse, high quality, wetlands mosaic of lowland woods, scrub/shrub, wet meadow, and marsh habitats through invasive vegetation control and supplemental planting of native species.

Early upland successional woods and lawn surround the existing degraded wetlands. The woods contain a high percentage of invasive plants such as Lonicera tartarica (bush honeysuckle) and some areas of Rhamnus frangula (glossy buckthorn). This area of the site will become a restored, forested wetlands/uplands complex with woodland pools providing ideal habitat for amphibians. Areas of lawn will be restored to a diverse scrub/shrub wetlands complex. Finally, approximately 1,528 linear feet of Fish Creek bisects the property and will be preserved and protected.