Members of Ducks Unlimited, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources staff and members of several Sheboygan County conservation clubs were among more than 100 people who gathered on a clear afternoon May 19 to celebrate the dedication of the up-to-date dam at Sheboygan Marsh.
It was the culmination of a project that was first planned almost a decade ago. Sheboygan Marsh includes over 14,000 acres of wetlands, lowland forests, shrub marshes, moist meadows and prairies. At least 1,700 acres of open water habitat are created by a dam in the northeast corner of the marshes on the Sheboygan River.