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Committee backs community habitat improvement projects; roadside phragmites treatment cited as countywide priority
Summary
Oakland County committee recommended funding and implementation of local habitat restoration projects and a countywide roadside phragmites treatment; staff described outreach and application timing for the program's fifth year.
The Legislative and County Affairs Committee on Feb. 25 recommended the Board of Commissioners approve a series of community habitat restoration projects and a countywide program to control invasive phragmites along road rights-of-way.
Sarah Cook Malan, chief of natural resources and sustainability for Oakland County Parks, said the Community Habitat Improvement Program is now in its fifth year. She described the program as county-managed implementation: communities apply and staff or contractors perform the work on their behalf rather than issuing direct grants.
Cook Malan…
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