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NGPC completes major Methodist Cove restoration at Harlan Reservoir to reconnect shoreline habitat
Summary
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission officials said a federally funded, roughly $10 million project at Harlan Reservoir is largely finished after work to restore Methodist Cove connectivity, add breakwaters and shoreline rock, and install artificial and woody structures to improve spawning and refuge habitat for crappie, bass and other species.
BRAD IFERT, South Central District manager for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, said the Harlan Reservoir Methodist Cove restoration — a roughly $10 million project funded primarily by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers grant with additional money from Nebraska's aquatic habitat fund — is essentially complete and will reopen shoreline habitat for spawning and rearing.
The project restored a permanently connected cove at Harlan Reservoir by excavating a channel, removing accumulating sediment, installing breakwaters and shoreline rock and adding both…
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