From Ann Arbor News article on July 1, 1990
Nature lovers want parks department to dredge marsh for bird life
Nature lovers Manfred Schmidt and Will Weber think there isn’t anything wrong with the Mitchell-Scarlett marsh that a huge shovel wouldn’t fix.
Schmidt, a landscaper, and Weber, who has a doctorate from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources, are asking Ann Arbor parks officials to dredge out the weed-choked marsh in southeast Ann Arbor before it turns into a meadow.
The dredging would be very similar to a project the two men led nine years ago, when the western half of the Mitchell-Scarlett marsh owned by the public schools was dredged and open water created. That project was done in the winter of 1981 with nearly $6,000 of funds raised privately by a neighborhood group.
Leave a Reply