Everyone should have a rain garden! Here’s a short presentation by Kristin Andres, associate director for education at the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, about the value rain gardens and how...
40+ Years of Wetland Restoration in the San Francisco Bay, Coastal Conservancy
The evolution of tidal wetland restoration approaches in SF Bay, illustrated by specific projects, such as Sonoma Baylands, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, and Lower Walnut Creek and...
The Bayou St. John Urban Marsh Creation Project restored a half-acre of native marsh in the city of New Orleans as part of a long term effort to improve the bayou’s water quality. The urban oasis...
Texas Parks and Wildlife and partners work to combat giant salvinia, a highly invasive, free-floating aquatic plant that forms dense mats on the water’s surface causing environmental and economic damage.
Coastal Restoration That Works, The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy recently completed $24.5 million dollars in critical shellfish, coral, and fish habitat restoration. These projects are demonstrating that restoration works: investing in...
Coastal Restoration Through Marsh Terraces, Ducks Unlimited
The terraces slow wind and waves, improving water clarity, slowing erosion, and promoting growth of underwater plants important to waterfowl and fisheries.
Conducting Large-Scale Wetland Restoration in Louisiana
NOAA works through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act to restore Louisiana’s coastal habitat. Working with state and federal partners and landowners to fund and implement...
CPRA Director Michael Ellis Explains Living Shoreline Demonstration Project, NOLA.com
Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Executive Director Michael Ellis discusses the 3-mile, $12 million living shoreline demonstration project, which is testing different concrete...
Dune Restoration to Gulf State Park, Gulf State Park Enhancement Project
The Gulf State Park Restoration Project aims to be a national model of environmental and economic resilience that we can all be proud of. As part of our ongoing recovery from the Deepwater Horizon...
By prioritizing programs that restore and protect our shorelines, remove potentially toxic substances from Galveston Bay, and reintroduce lost habitats, GBF was able to work with the community to...
Galveston Bay Oyster Restoration, Texas Parks and Wildlife
Restoration of oyster reefs damaged by Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Ike has begun in Galveston Bay. Tons of strategically placed river rock will serve as a foundation for oyster larvae to regenerate...
Invasive Species Control, Galveston Bay Foundation
The Texas gulf coast is host to a number of exotic species that you may be familiar with, some of the most notorious and invasive of these being fire ants, grass carp, nutria, Hydrilla, water...
Living Shorelines Use Oyster Shells and Marsh Grass to Reverse Coastal Erosion
Americans who live along coastlines are watching their land disappear and property threatened as climate change causes sea levels to rise. While homeowners often rely on expensive seawalls and...
Liza Jackson Park getting innovative ‘reef prisms’ to reduce erosion, attract sea creatures
A project to protect and restore the shoreline at Liza Jackson Park will feature a unique composite structure never before used in Northwest Florida waterways.
Since 1992, the Mangrove Action Project (MAP) has worked to educate the public about mangrove forests, to promote and engage in mangrove conservation and restoration.
The foundation and its “marsh maniacs” have been working since 1999 to restore marshes in Galveston Bay. Over the past 20 years, more than 211 acres of smooth cord grass have been planted in the bay.
The National Wildlife Federation is America’s oldest and largest conservation organization. It has worked for over two decades to protect and restore the Gulf Coast. Their website has links to...
NOAA Study Shows Coastal Flooding Events Likely to Increase 25-Fold by 2030
A 2010 study shows there are more than 14 million Floridians living in coastal zones. A recent study by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says a sea-level rise of 3...
400,000 pounds of recycled oyster shells being returned to Dickinson Bay. By returning shell to the Bay, Galveston Bay Foundation is creating new homes for thousands of baby oysters! Oysters help...
The Nashua River Watershed Association sponsors a project in which volunteers raise Galerucella beetles and release them into the wild to eat purple loosestrife.
Oyster-covered reef balls and reefs provide water quality benefits, food for foraging birds and wildlife, and are an effective means of wave attenuation. In addition, the hollow reef balls become a...
Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Atlanta Botanical Gardens are removing invasive species and using fire management to restore coastal dune lakes in the Florida Panhandle to improve...
The Mississippi River Delta is sinking at an alarming rate. To make informed decisions about the actions required to fix it we need to understand how the Delta was formed, its importance for both...
The Coastal Restoration Partnership between ConocoPhillips and Ducks Unlimited focuses on the restoration of Louisiana’s coastal marshes and their critical resources for waterfowl, communities,...
Restoring Sand Dunes with Christmas Trees, Save Our Beach Association, TX
Each year volunteers place thousands of recycled Christmas trees on the barrier island beach. They line the trees up end-to-end and secure them into place. The trees trap sand to strengthen existing...
This database contains multiple coastal resilience projects around the nation, including Living Shorelines for shoreline stabilization, habitat restoration, and floodplain management. Each project...
Community volunteers and students participate in salt marsh plantings throughout the year. To date, they have restored 294 acres of wetland habitat by planting 334,204 plugs of salt marsh.
Seagrass Monitoring and Restoration, Tampa Bay Watch
Seagrass in Tampa Bay had decreased from 75,000 acres to 21,500 acres. It has been slowly increasing due to bay-wide water quality improvement, reduced dredging and filling, educational programs, and...
Volunteers led by the non-profit environmental group Tampa Bay Watch shoveled, bagged, and moved 14 tons of fossilized shells to Schultz Nature Preserve, restoring a home for oysters to thrive in the bay.
GBF’s Water Monitoring Team is filled with people like you, citizens who care about Galveston Bay’s waters and are working to help protect them. Trained volunteers conduct monthly water quality...
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