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Wonder Lake's Merchant Creek gains trails, native plants, stable shores

Nippersink Watershed Association board members Bob Schell (from left), Mark Nichols, Cindy Skrukrud and Dennis Palys pose for a portrait Wednesday along a trail created as part of a project to clear brush along Merchant Creek and reduce sediment flow into Wonder Lake. (Sam Lounsberry)

Nippersink Watershed Association board members Bob Schell (from left), Mark Nichols, Cindy Skrukrud and Dennis Palys pose for a portrait Wednesday along a trail created as part of a project to clear brush along Merchant Creek and reduce sediment flow into Wonder Lake. (Sam Lounsberry)

The nonprofit Nippersink Watershed Association helped restore and stabilize nearly 1,000 feet of Merchant Creek's bed and banks by obtaining grants and donations that helped fund work to place rocks like these to reduce sediment flow into Wonder Lake. (Sam Lounsberry)

The nonprofit Nippersink Watershed Association helped restore and stabilize nearly 1,000 feet of Merchant Creek's bed and banks by obtaining grants and donations that helped fund work to place rocks like these to reduce sediment flow into Wonder Lake. (Sam Lounsberry)

The entrance to a trail on the Merchant Creek corridor, a stretch of which has been restored by the Nippersink Watershed Association through grant and donation funding and volunteer work over the past two-and-a-half years, seen Wednesday. (Sam Lounsberry)

Nippersink Watershed Association board members Dennis Palys (left) and Cindy Skrukrud inspect foliage along the Merchant Creek near Wonder Lake on Wednesday. (Sam Lounsberry)