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Tampa Bay High School Wetland Nursery 1
Tampa Bay High School Wetland Nursery 1
Tampa Bay encompasses over 400 square miles and supports a 2,300 square mile watershed. After a century of urbanization and development, nearly half of the mangrove and salt marshes that once existed in the Tampa Bay estuary are gone. In an effort to restore these lost habitats, NMFS partnered with Tampa BayWatch, Inc. to fund a Tampa Bay High School Wetland nursery program. This innovative program recruits high school ecology and science clubs to build wetland nurseries on-campus to grow salt marsh grasses for Tampa bay restoration efforts.
Tampa Bay High School Wetland Nursery
Tampa Bay High School Wetland Nursery
Restoration
Two girl scouts plant three species of salt and high-marsh grass in a projectdesigned to remove exotic and non-native salt marsh plants and restore them withnative salt marsh plants.
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A group of boy scouts and their leaders plant native wetland plantsin Palmetto, Manatee County, Florida.
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High school volunteers take donor plants to start a wetland nursery. Wetlandnurseries are designed to create a source of native plants to be used in theTampa Bay estuary. Native species are taken from a donor site, transplanted tonurseries establishe
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Volunteers from a school in St. Petersburg begin to plant the wetland nurseryat their school. The nursery at this school was built one week earlier.
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Planting smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, at a donor siteat the Port Manatee fish hatchery.
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At Cockroach Bay, a newly constructed tidal pond before planting.This area was scheduled for planting within two months of construction of thetidal pool. The restoration planting at Cockroach Bay consisted of twelve tofifteen acres.
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This image at Cockroach Bay shows the area to be planted in the upper left handof the image. Previously planted wetlands are seen in the middle and lowerregions of the image.
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Two schools from Hillsborough County plant approximately 8,000 planting unitsof smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, at the Cockroach Bay AquaticReserve.
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This image shows construction of a new wetland nursery at a St. Petersburghigh school. The donor plants are brought to the nursery and then used inrestoration projects. The nursery ponds are lined with plastic to hold in saltwater and nutrients.
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At Cockroach Bay Aquatic Reserve, a volunteer planting of 8,000 planting unitsof smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora.
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At a Hillsborough County school, student volunteers split donor plantsand install them into rooting trays for use in a new wetland nursery.
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A security fence is installed at an on campus nursery in a St. Petersburg schoolto prevent vandalism and to reduce the threat of unintentional impacts to theplants in the nursery.
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The second nursery built under the Tampa Bay wetland nursery program.
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The planting area at the Cockroach Bay Aquatic Reserve. The stakes in thebackground mark the planting zone within the intertidal range. The boy in theimage is using a trowel to begin planting.
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At a St. Petersburg school, student volunteers mix beach sand, peat moss, andvermiculite to plant nursery plants. Once the plants are established, TampaBaywatch staff visit regularly and the students monitor the health of theplants once a week and me
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