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PROJECT BENEFITS <br />• Habitat enhancement (up to three acres) for game fish, waterfowl, and non -game wildlife <br />• Reconnection of fragmented riparian habitat along up to a half mile of riverbank <br />• Water quality and clarity improvement downstream by reducing up to 750 tons of sediment annually <br />• Projects will protect both public and private land currently being lost to erosion. <br />• Wildlife -friendly approaches will be developed or tested to advance bioengineering practices for wildlife benefit. <br />BIOENGINEERING <br />• Relies on natural materials to <br />stabilize banks while <br />providing transitional habitat <br />that is traversable by wildlife <br />• May include light grading and <br />toe armor, native plants, <br />woody materials, and rock <br />vanes <br />• Stabilizes soils to prevent <br />sediment loading to river, <br />improving water quality, fish <br />spawning beds, and mussel <br />habitat <br />• Reconnects currently <br />fragmented riparian -littoral <br />habitat along the river <br />BEFORE <br />MINNESOTA'S RUM RIVER <br />ig Resource Value Water <br />• State Wild, Scenic, and Recreational River <br />• State Water Trail <br />• World -class smallmouth bass fishery <br />• Key reach for Species in Greatest Conservation Need <br />(SGCN); Several mussels, Blanding's turtle <br />AIKiXA <br />V ONSERVATION <br />!STRICT <br />AL <br />Anoka County <br />MINNESOTA <br />{ 1I"1CLEAN <br />���p WATER <br />i LAND & <br />LEGACY <br />AMENDMENT <br />