In 2009, Great Lakes IPMT helped restore 1 invaded panne at Indiana Dunes. 17 years later, native flowers now bloom in the wetland where invasive plants once formed a dense monoculture

In 2009, the Great Lakes Invasive Plant Management Team partnered with Indiana Dunes National Park to control invasive plants that had overwhelmed one of the park's panne ecosystems.

Pannes are wetlands found between sand dunes and are classified as globally vulnerable. Monitoring and inventory work at the site had begun in 2005 before the partnership with the Great Lakes IPMT.