Assemble Floating Island  

   Features:  

* Creating a thriving habitat for animals
* Providing a refuge for near shore animals
* Increasing the spawning success for many fish species
* Limiting non-native and/or invasive aquatic plant growth
* Creating a network of plant roots to stabilize the water's edge
* Increasing dissolved oxygen for the animals that live in littoral zones
* Provide cover and nesting for butterflies, marsh birds, songbirds and waterfowl
* Provide habitat for many non-game fish species that are often "invisible" to most people
* Proving food for mammals, waterfowl, insects and fish through the plants fruits and tubers
* Submerged plants absorb phosphorus and nitrogen over their leaf surface and through their roots,

   making nutrients less available for nuisance algae.