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Fort McHenry Wetlands Restoration
Fort McHenry Wetlands Restoration
Wetlands protect the Chesapeake Bay by providing numerous functions like flood buffering, bank stabilization, and water quality improvement by filtering excess nutrients from the water. Wetlands also serve as essential nursery areas for many species of fish and finfish, which are economically important to the Bay’s economy. The community-based restoration project at Ft. McHenry is located at a tidal marsh next to the Ft. McHenry monument. This ten-acre marsh was created as mitigation for the environmental impacts of urbanization but has not been monitored. The main objectives of this restoration project are to collect baseline date on the ecological parameters of the marsh, establish a community-based trash collection program, eradicate Phragmites australis from the site, plant beneficial marsh vegetation, reforest an adjacent bank, install an osprey platform, evaluate the functionality of an oyster bar adjacent to the site, and develop innovative public involvement activities.
Fort McHenry Wetlands Restoration
Fort McHenry Wetlands Restoration
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Roger Griffis of NOAA assists in the clean-up at Ft. McHenry, MD.
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NOAA volunteers plant smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora
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Livingston Marshall of Morgan State University removes Phragmites australis, anon-native invasive species.
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Removal of trash at Ft. McHenry, this site is a created wetland, the rip raparound the border was placed to stabilize the area.
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Glenn Page, the Conservation Director for the National Aquarium in Baltimore,instructs volunteers in planting techniques and in using a dibble.
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Glenn Page instructing volunteers in the art of wetland planting techniques atFt. McHenry.
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Volunteers at Ft McHenry collect and remove bags of trash collected at therestoration site.
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Glenn Page gives a lesson in water quality monitoring.
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Roger Griffis of NOAA takes a break from the work.
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NOAA volunteers and Morgan State University students plant smooth cordgrass,Spartina alterniflora, at the Ft. McHenry site.
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Margaret McCalla of NOAA cleans trash off the beach at Ft. McHenry, MD.
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June Gupton, a volunteer, cleans the shoreline at the Ft. McHenry site.
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Volunteers plant the Spartina alterniflora seedlings in the dried salt marsh.Most of the plantings done here were in the intertidal zone.
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Glenn Page and a group of volunteers plant Spartina alterniflora in theintertidal zone at Ft. McHenry, MD.
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Glenn Page instructs volunteers in planting techniques. Scott Gudes of NOAA isin the background.
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Penny Dalton, former Assistant Administrator for NOAA Fisheries, cleans trashand debris from the rip rap around the perimeter of the wetlands at Ft McHenry.
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NOAA volunteers clean and remove trash from the rip rap.
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Abby Meador, a volunteer, takes an inventory of the trash collected atFt. McHenry.
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A view looking from Ft. McHenry across the Patapsco River. Thisten-acre wetland was created at the base of the Fort McHenry.The marsh here is inundated by full tide.
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Volunteers plant Spartina alterniflora at Ft. Mc Henry.
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