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July 2007 Salt marsh restoration implemented by the Town of North Hempstead using Long Island Sound Futures grant award. (photo: Lisa Rosman, NOAA) In foreground is 2007 salt marsh restoration (area surrounded by fencing) implemented by Town of North Hempstead.. Background shows 2003 salt marsh restoration implemented by NOAA and its co-trustees with the town as partner. (photo: Lisa Rosman, NOAA) /Spartina alterniflora/ (smooth cordgrass) and /Iva frutescens/ (marsh elder) along shoreline between trees and cordgrass), four years after planting. (photo: Lisa Rosman, NOAA) Signs of benthic community recovery include /Geukensia demissa /(ribbed mussels) recolonizing unvegetated sediment of the restored salt marsh and presence of /Uca pugnax The various planting zones of the restoration project from left to right: /Panicum virgatum /(switch grass), /Spartina alterniflora /(smooth cordgrass) and /Iva frutescens High marsh /Spartina patens /(saltmeadow hay) and /Distichlis spicata /(salt grass) with /Panicum virgatum/ (switch grass) and the shrub /Iva frutescens View of the shoreline and saltmarsh restoration in May of 2006 prior to spring/summer growth. Photo by L. Rosman. Volunteers are assisting in the 2003 installation of saltmarsh plants and geese exclusion fencing/flagging. (photo by L.Rosman) In September 2004, fish communities were monitored utilizing the saltmarsh restoration site. Photo by the Louis Berger Group. Fill material and common reed (Phragmites australis), that were removed in 2003 during the shoreline and saltmarsh restoration of Bar Beach Lagoon. Photo by Laura Schwanof, EEA. The fill material from the peninsula area was excavated in 2003 as part of the restoration. Photo by Laura Schwanof, EEA This is the restoration site showing the saltmarsh and shoreline during construction, but prior to placement of clean fill, grading and planting. Rubble and common reed (Phragmites australis) had been excavated. Photo by Laura Schwanof, EEA


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