Moment in the Marsh
  • Home
  • ABOUT US
  • MISSION
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • SUPPORT
  • CONTACT US
  • PROJECTS
  • SHOP
  • WIN

WIN


Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Home

Blog Description

A day-to-day account from a southwestern Lake Erie coastal marsh providing a running commentary on a diverse array of topics, including: wetland ecology & resource management, water quality & nutrient management, invasive species, nearshore fisheries, waterfowl & duck hunting, birds & birding, natural history, private & public conservation funding, field observations & nature photography, youth in the outdoors, and the importance of land conservation in the Great Lakes region and beyond.

Visit The Marsh Mercantile!

Visit The Marsh Mercantile!

Get Posts Sent to You

If you want to receive an email every time a new post is published, simply add your address below & follow the simple prompts (unsubscribe any time)

Follow by Email

Support Standing Rush

Important Note

While this commentary is written such that any entry could stand alone, it may be most informative if readers begin on March 20, 2017 and read chronologically -- at least for a handful of entries or so:
  • Entry #1 - March 20, 2017
  • Entry #2: March 21, 2017
  • Entry #3: March 22, 2017
  • Entry #4: March 23, 2017
  • Entry #5, March 24, 2017

Key Resources

  • History of Wetlands in US
  • Restoration Potential
  • Interactive Great Lakes Wetland Map
  • GLRI

Blog Archives

Search This Blog

Labels

  • "night show"
  • #TPSProud
  • aerial spraying
  • agricultural runoff
  • agriculture
  • Alweld Jon Boat
  • American beaver
  • American Bittern
  • American black duck
  • American goldfinch
  • American white pelican
  • American wigeon
  • amphibians
  • ancient fishes
  • archery
  • arrowhead
  • Art Weber
  • aster
  • autumn
  • autumn colors
  • Autumn Meadowhawk
  • Backwater motor
  • bald eagle
  • bald eagles
  • Baltimore oriole
  • beaver
  • beggerstick
  • BGSU
  • big ducks
  • Biggest Week
  • biocontrol
  • birding
  • black bullhead
  • black swallowtail
  • Black Swamp Bird Observatory
  • black-and-white warbler
  • black-crowned night heron
  • black-legged meadow katydid
  • Blackburnian warbler
  • bladderwort
  • Blanding's Turtle
  • blog subscriptions
  • blue-gray gnatcatcher
  • blue-winged teal
  • boat ride
  • Bonaparte's Gulls
  • bowfin
  • Bowling Green State University
  • Brant
  • brook silverside
  • brown bullhead
  • brush mowing
  • BSBO
  • bumble bee
  • bunkhouse trees
  • burglary
  • bush honeysuckle
  • Butler's gartersnake
  • Canada geese
  • Canon SX60
  • Canvasback
  • Carolina wren
  • carp
  • cattail
  • cedar waxwing
  • Center Unit
  • clean drinking water
  • clean slate
  • Clean Water Decal
  • cliff swallows
  • climate change
  • collaboration
  • commercial fishing
  • Common Gullinule
  • common merganser
  • common read
  • common watersnake
  • common yellowthroat
  • conservation
  • conservation award
  • conservation easement
  • Conservation Gift
  • Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • coyote
  • cricket
  • Dad
  • damselflies
  • Dave Brunkhorst
  • decoys
  • deer
  • deer hunting
  • deer ticks
  • DeKay's brown snake
  • diesel pump
  • differential grasshopper
  • dike maintenance
  • dike repair
  • dike restoration
  • dike seeding
  • dikes
  • Dinky Track
  • diving ducks
  • dock installation
  • double-crested cormorant
  • dragonflies
  • drawdown
  • drawdown -- late season
  • drone
  • duck blind
  • duck hunting
  • dunlin
  • eagles
  • Earth Day
  • East Marsh
  • Eastern foxsnake
  • eastern kingbird
  • Eastern tailed blue
  • Ed Moxley
  • education
  • egret
  • Ellen Dziubek
  • emarald ash borer
  • emerald shiners
  • Endangered Species Act
  • Endangered Species List
  • EQIP
  • ERDC Environmental Laboratory
  • Erie County Conservation District
  • erosion protection
  • Estuary
  • extirpated
  • Facebook
  • fall ducks
  • fall migrants
  • family
  • Federal Duck Stamp
  • federal spending
  • field mowing
  • fire
  • Firelands Audubon Society
  • first freeze
  • fish
  • fish collection
  • fish passage
  • fish sampling
  • fisheries research
  • fishing
  • Flight Path
  • Flowering Rush
  • For Sale
  • frog hunting
  • funding
  • Fyke nets
  • gadwall
  • Galerucella beetle
  • garter snake
  • geese
  • Gibbs Aero Spray
  • gizzard shad
  • glossy ibis
  • GLRI
  • glyphosphate
  • golden shiner
  • golden-crowned kinglet
  • GoPro
  • grading
  • grass seeding
  • gray catbird
  • great blue heron
  • great egret
  • great golden digger wasp
  • great horned owl
  • Great Lakes advocacy
  • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
  • Greater Scaup
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • green heron
  • green-winged teal
  • Greg Lipps
  • groundwater spring
  • hatch
  • helicopter spraying
  • herbicide recommendations
  • Hibiscus
  • high water
  • holistic management
  • hooded merganser
  • improvement projects
  • Indian Summer
  • Instagram
  • internship
  • invasive
  • invasive species
  • Japanese millet
  • Jim Rataczak
  • Joel Sartore
  • Julie
  • kids
  • Lake Erie
  • Lake Erie pride
  • largemouth bass
  • least sandpiper
  • leopard frog
  • Lesser Scaup
  • loosestrife beetle
  • Lyme disease
  • Lythrum
  • making ice
  • mallard
  • mallards
  • mammals
  • management unit
  • marsh hawk
  • marsh mallow
  • marsh manager
  • Marsh Mercantile
  • Marsh Shop
  • marsh sounds
  • marsh tour
  • media coverage
  • mentors
  • midges
  • migration
  • Mike Moore
  • milestones
  • milkweed
  • millet
  • mink
  • mission
  • mobile pump
  • monarch
  • monk thistle
  • monoculture
  • motion camera
  • mowing
  • Mud Months
  • MULE
  • muskrat
  • muskrats
  • mystery photo
  • Nate
  • National Center for Nature Photography
  • National Geographic
  • nature photography
  • nature's kidneys
  • nitrogen
  • NOAA
  • Nor'easter
  • northern flicker
  • northern harrier
  • northern leopard frog
  • northern parula
  • northern pike
  • northern pintail
  • northern shoveler
  • northern spring peeper
  • northern sunfish
  • noxious weeds
  • NP2019
  • NRCS
  • nut sedge
  • nutrients
  • Odonata
  • Office of Coastal Management
  • Ohio Division of Wildlife
  • Ohio EPA
  • Ohio Outdoor News
  • Ohio State University
  • Ohio Wetland Habitat Stamp
  • Old #16
  • online shop
  • Opening Day
  • orangespotted sunfish
  • painted turtle
  • palm warbler
  • Parcel 2
  • patience
  • permanent protection
  • permitting
  • phosphorus
  • photo monitoring
  • photodocumentation
  • Phrag
  • Phragmites
  • Phragmites australis
  • Phramites
  • pickerelweed
  • pied-billed grebe
  • pipe replacement
  • PL
  • poison hemlock
  • preening
  • prescribed burning
  • Private Lands
  • property sale
  • public television
  • pumping
  • pumpkinseed sunfish
  • Pumpzilla
  • punt boats
  • punt gun
  • punter
  • punting
  • punts
  • purple loosestrife
  • racoon
  • Randy Gardner
  • Rare
  • re-flooding
  • red admiral
  • red fox
  • red-bellied woodpecker
  • red-tailed hawk
  • red-winged blackbird
  • Redhead
  • reflooding
  • reforestation
  • reptiles
  • Rest Pond
  • restoration
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • riprap
  • Roy Kroll
  • ruby-crowned kinglet
  • rut
  • sandhill crane
  • Sandusky Bay
  • screw gate
  • seiche
  • seine nets
  • sheephead
  • shorebirds
  • short-billed dowitcher
  • site preparation
  • smartweed
  • snapping turtle
  • snow
  • Social Media
  • soft-stemmed bulrush
  • soil sampling
  • solitary sandpiper
  • sora
  • spillway
  • spring ducks
  • spring rains
  • spring sounds
  • staff gauge
  • Stand for Something Great
  • Standing Rush Shop
  • Stihl FS110
  • stone armoring
  • Structure 1
  • Structure 2
  • suggestions
  • summer
  • surveying
  • swamp loosestrife
  • swamp rose mallow
  • teal
  • teal opener
  • teal season
  • temperature gradient
  • Thanksgiving
  • thaw
  • The Blade
  • think globally-act locally
  • ticks
  • Toledo Aerial Media
  • Toledo Metroparks
  • Toledo Naturalists' Association
  • Toledo Public Schools
  • tours
  • Tower Marsh
  • Tower Woods
  • TPS
  • trail camera
  • trapping
  • tree planting
  • tree stand
  • tree swallow
  • trumpeter swan
  • tufa rock
  • turtle nests
  • turtles
  • Twelve-spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella)
  • university involvement
  • updates
  • USACE
  • USDA
  • vegetative cover
  • video
  • visitors
  • volunteer opportunity
  • Walter's millet
  • warbler
  • Water Conveyance Replacement
  • water levels
  • water management
  • water quality
  • waterfowl hunting
  • watersnake
  • weather
  • weather radar
  • West Marsh
  • western chorus frog
  • wetland education
  • wetland education centers
  • wetland functions
  • wetland loss
  • wetland preservation
  • wetland protection
  • wetland values
  • WGTE
  • white water lily
  • white-crowned sparrow
  • white-faced ibis
  • white-tailed deer
  • white-throated sparrow
  • wildlife photography
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Winous Point
  • winter
  • winter ducks
  • winter marsh
  • wood duck
  • woodland restoration
  • WRE
  • yellow warbler
  • yellow-rumped warbler
  • YouTube
© 2017 Standing Rush, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Powered by Blogger.