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Neponset Salt Marsh Restoration: Dorchester Reporter, CZM

Ongoing effort to restore the health of the Neponset River.

 

 

The Fowl Meadow Area of Critical Environmental Concern, awash in the magenta-colored flowers of exotic, invasive Purple loosestrife, several years ago.

Wetland Restoration 

Fowl Meadow Purple loosestrife 

biological control project

 

 

More Project Resources

Beetle-Ranching

Learn more about beetle-ranching from the University of Minnesota. here.

Learn more about beetle-ranching from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge and York County Soil & Water Conservation District.

View the PowerPoint presentation shown by project partners NepRWA and DCR at the March 2010 Fowl Meadow Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Volunteer Training Sessions.

View the 2010 Beetle-Ranching volunteer activity schedule.

Monitoring Study Sites:  Tutorial

Learn how to monitor study sites, from Cornell University.

Purple Loosestrife:  Significance to the Environment & Management

Purple loosestrife invasiveness & more.

Controlling Purple loosestrife populations.

Galerucella beetles as a biological control method for Purple loosestrife.

Purple loosestrife biocontrol program of the MA Division of Ecological Restoration (formerly the MA Wetlands Restoration Program).

Neponset / Fowl Meadow Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Project

Project Pictures & Video

View the latest project pictures.

Local wetland plants & wildlife.

Watch a video of a beetle release at the project sites.

Project Treatment Sites

Learn more about the Fowl Meadow site.

Learn about wetlands.

Get Involved!

Volunteer for this project

Miscellaneous

2009 Update for Neponset Fowl Meadow Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Project

Read a blog about invasive species in the Eastern USA.

For more information, contact NepRWA Restoration Manager Carly Rocklen at 781-575-0354 x303 or rocklen@neponset.org

 

March 2010