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Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area
Restoration
 The Goose Pond Wetland Reserve Program (WRP)
project is located in southwestern Indiana, in western Greene County.
This WRP site covers an area of 7,068 acres at two separate locations,
the Goose Pond, and the Beehunter Marsh. The
Goose Pond site covers an area of
approximately 5,945 acres while the Beehunter Marsh site an area of
approximately 1,123 acres.
Goose Pond is a natural
depressional area bounded by Black Creek Ditch and Brewer Ditch. These
two ditches have been leveed as part of an effort to drain the
depressional area for the production of agricultural crops. As is
typical of drained, depressional areas, the crops produced frequently
suffered damage due to inundation. The current landowner has enrolled
this area into the Natural Resource Conservation Service’s (NRCS)
Wetland Reserve Program (WRP), and along with NRCS and Ducks Unlimited (DU)
wishes to restore the site into a naturally functioning wetland.
Indiana
Tech Note: Using Micro and Macrotopography in Wetlands Restoration
Goose Pond Wetland Reserve Project
Hydrology and Hydraulics Modeling Summary Report |
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Approximate Timeline |
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1999 |
the private landowner
enrolled the land in the WRP, a perpetual conservation easement to
restore the property to as nearly the original condition as
possible. |
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2000 |
the last crops harvested
and restoration began. |
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2003 |
Beehunter Marsh
restoration completed. |
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2005 |
the State of Indiana
purchased GPFWA through a complex partnership of private, local,
state, and federal agencies. |
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2006 |
Goose Pond unit
construction continues. |
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2007 |
Complete construction on
Goose Pond units. |
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2008 |
Construction to widen
Highway 59 adjacent to the Goose Pond main pool begins, may be
completed. |
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2008 |
Goose Pond main pool
construction begins. |
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2009 |
Goose Pond main pool
~2500 acres shallow glacial lake completed.
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2010 |
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