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Coastal Restoration

Overview

Section 309 of the Coastal Zone Management Act was created in 1990 to address coastal issues of national significance. New Hampshire’s program primarily focuses on two areas: wetland protection and cumulative and secondary impacts. Coastal restoration is more of a process than a single action. Degradation of a resource takes time, often decades, so the restoration of that resource will also take time. Second, restored habitats should be self-sustaining, that it, a large degree of maintenance and management should not be needed. Last, in most cases, resource managers cannot recreate the condition of a habitat before it was degraded. Thus, restoration attempts to mimic natural structures which should, over time, regain natural function.

 

Hot Topics

• Winnicut River Dam Removal
• Partnership to Restore N.H.’s Estuaries Fact Sheet, N.H. Fish and Game
• Coastal Restoration Focus Areas
  Salt Marsh Restoration
  Coastal River Restoration
  Coastal Watershed Invasive Plant Partnership

Publications

• Hampton-Seabrook Estuary Compendium – a planning tool for the restoration of sand dunes, salt marshes, and diadromous fish in the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary Watershed
• Great Bay Estuary Restoration Compendium – a planning tool for the restoration of eelgrass, salt marshes, diadromous fish and shellfish in the Great Bay Watershed
• The Stream Barrier Removal Monitoring Guide – critical monitoring parameters for use at dam and culvert removal sites

Resources/Links

• Eelgrass Distribution in Great Bay Estuary
• Sea Level Rise
• Beach and Dune Restoration
• Earth Systems Data Collaborative
• Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration Strategy
• NOAA Restoration Atlas
• Partnership to Restore New Hampshire’s Estuaries

Contact Us

• Kevin Lucey, Restoration Coordinator
  New Hampshire Coastal Program
  NH Dept. of Environmental Services
  Pease Tradeport 
  222 International Drive, Suite 175
  Portsmouth, NH 03801
  (603) 559-0026
  kevin.lucey@des.nh.gov
  

 

 

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