On October 29, 2024 the St. Clair County Pheasants Forever Chapter completed the final stage of the 5 acre habitat project located at the corner of Kingsley Road and Metcalf Road in Clyde Township. PF Member Dan Potter of Marsh 'N Meadow Outdoors LLC from Hastings, Michigan drilled seed into the ground that hopefully will provide much needed habitat for a variety of wildlife and pollinators. The seed that was planted was a MI CRP Plateau Tolerant mix consisting of: Purple Coneflower, Purple Prairie Clover, False Sunflower, Partridge Pea, Greyhead Coneflower, Black eyed Susan, Stiff Goldenrod, Showy Tick Trefoil, New England Aster, Brown eyed Susan, Big Bluestem, Canada Wildrye, Little Bluestem, Indiangrass, Common Milkweed, and Lanceleaf Coreopsis. This planting followed up the planting completed by students from John F. Farrell-Emmett Elementary School earlier in the fall. Future years the site will be maintained with an annual mowing and possibly spot spraying to control invasive plant species.
Talks of improving habitat on the Port Huron State Game Area for upland wildlife have been ongoing for many years. The chapter made a strong push in 2016 to make something finally happen. It has been a long journey with the passing of key chapter board members along the way, the Covid years, attempts started that were met with setbacks, and finally the completion of this project. Hopefully this will lead to more successful projects in the future that will enhance the game area for all wildlife and be available to us and future generations to enjoy.
If you have not visited the site please check it out. The kiosk build by chapter member Joe Griffor is awesome and contains information about the site and our chapter.
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