Trends in Restoration Within the Hackensack Meadowlands

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Trends in Restoration Within the Hackensack
Meadowlands

• Teresa Doss
• The Louis Berger Group
• Ross Feltes, Brett Bragin, and Kyle Spendiff
• New Jersey Meadowlands Commission

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The Hackensack Meadowlands
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Changes in Wetland Acreages In the Meadowlands
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Importance of Wetland Buffer Zones
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The Meadowlands Today
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Some Restoration Issues..
Invasive Species Sea Level Rise
Contamination
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Phragmites Friend or Foe?
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Minchinton, Simpson and Bertness, 2006
Silliman and Bertness, 2004
Weinstein Balletto, 1999
Windham Lathrop, 1999
Able Hagan, 2000
Rooth Stevenson, 2000
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Angradi, Hagan, and Able, 2001
Roman, Raposa, Adamowicz, James-Pirri, and
Catena, 2002
The Louis Berger Group, 2000 - 2006
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Sea level rise facts

• Natural and human factors
• Sea level rise 2mm
• Sedimentation rates
• 2 18 mm
• 3. glacial isostatic adjustment

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Implications for the Meadowlands
Tidal fluctations
Sediment accumulation
Wetland submergence
Site specific data
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Contaminants

• Attractive nuisance

Pristine?
Baseline target
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SCIENTIFIC INPUT
RESTORATION EFFORTS
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
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