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Mill Brook Restoration – Strategies for Success Part 1

October 14, 2012

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Defining and Executing the Project

by Lisa Cowan, PLA, ASLA

I had the fortunate experience of being in the right place, right time to be the lead landscape architect on the design and construction management team selected to restore a 17-acre riparian stream and forest buffer in Scarborough, Maine, as mitigation for a highway project. This was the early 1990s – there were no precedents for this type of project and we were consultants to a state agency, Maine DOT, that was used to building highways, not forests! [click to continue…]

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Mowing Less at Bird Park: Sustainable Stewardship with Community Support

October 14, 2012

in Meadows,Restoration

by Russ Hopping

Parks and other cultural landscapes require careful planning and stewardship to make them special places for visitors. The natural world includes equally special and unique places that may require our care as well. The lines are not always clear between what is natural and what is cultural, however. Indeed in many, perhaps even all, locations the two can overlap and can be compatible. [click to continue…]

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Transition to Sustainability at Kent Hospital, Warwick, Rhode Island

October 14, 2012

by Nick Novick Beginning about ten years ago, a significant portion of the landscape around Kent Hospital has been transformed from the common template of mostly maintenance-intensive lawn and beds of shrubs and annuals to a more sustainable model comprising stormwater retention, mostly native plants, and designs that are more self-sustaining.

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Site Considerations When Reclaiming Previously Developed Land

March 15, 2012

by Anja Ryan Throughout New England’s cities and towns there are many uncovered opportunities to reclaim previously developed land. Forgotten over the years, old railroad beds, burned-out mill foundations, and vacant lots have become overgrown with successive vegetation, been vandalized, and used as dumping grounds. Sometimes structures remain, beckoning us from a not so distant [...]

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Restoration Enhances Ecosystem, Recreation, and Water Quality at Fresh Pond

October 15, 2011

by Thomas Benjamin   Ecosystem restoration is often driven by a regulatory requirement, which makes the voluntary improvement of a 30-acre section of urban oasis including forest, meadow, and shoreline quite unusual. What is even more extraordinary is that this island of tranquility is located in densely populated Cambridge, Massachusetts and within sight of downtown [...]

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Chestnut Creek Restoration Project

September 14, 2010

The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES™) The Chestnut Creek Restoration project is a small stream-side renovation project that sits behind the central parking area of the Town Hall in Neversink, New York. Project Overview Chestnut Creek is an environmentally sensitive stream corridor whose waters flow directly into the New York City reservoir system. The project objectives [...]

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The Eel River Headwaters Restoration Project

September 14, 2010

by Penny Lewis Across the country, collaborative restoration efforts are underway to restore wetlands, meadows, and other critical habitat. One such project is the Eel River Headwaters Restoration Project in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The combined efforts and funding of the Town of Plymouth; Division of Ecological Restoration – Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game; U.S. Fish [...]

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ClearWater Conservancy: Restoration in Practice

September 14, 2010

By Jennifer Chesworth In Central Pennsylvania, a local grassroots organization has made restoration the centerpiece of watershed protection. The ridges, valleys, farms and forests of Centre County, Pennsylvania share a truly unique “karst” topography of limestone and shale, underground streams, numerous caves, springs, and sinkholes, and a rare outcropping of quartz crystal that cuts across [...]

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Rock Meadow Restoration Project

June 16, 2010

Early successional natural communities — grasslands, meadows, and shrublands — are an increasingly uncommon cover type in New England and elsewhere in the US.

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Memorial Park Beach: Lakeside Park Restoration Project

February 11, 2010

Interview with Amanda Sloan Introduction Along the north shore of Lake Massapoag, a 350 acre natural lake in Sharon, Massachusetts, the public beach was in need of restoration. “A labor of love” is the way that long time Sharon resident and landscape designer, Amanda Sloan, describes the five year project. In a collaborative effort involving [...]

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