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Nebraska Game and Parks completes major Harlan Reservoir cove restoration funded largely by federal grant
Summary
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission said a roughly $10 million Corps-funded project to restore Methodist Cove at Harlan Reservoir is effectively complete, restoring channel connectivity, removing sediment, adding rock armoring and habitat structures and planning follow-up stocking and research.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s South Central District announced that the Methodist Cove restoration at Harlan Reservoir — a roughly $10 million project funded largely by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers grant with supplemental funds from Nebraska’s aquatic habitat fund — is essentially finished and will reopen 50–60 acres of shoreline cove habitat for fish.
The project restored a permanently connected channel, removed buried sediment, installed shoreline armoring and breakwaters, and added thousands of pieces of fish habitat. Agency staff said the work will improve spawning and nursery habitat for shoreline-oriented species such as crappie and largemouth bass and provide new angler…
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