Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program in Connecticut on the Land Conservation Assistance Network

Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program in Connecticut
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last updated: April 2022

Since 1991, the Partners Program and Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection have worked together to protect and restore wetlands for the benefit of migratory birds and other wetland-associated wildlife. Habitat restoration in Connecticut has focused primarily on restoring degraded tidal salt marshes along the coast. Restoration activities have included removing old dredge spoil material to reestablish the original marsh elevation, replacing damaged or undersized culvert pipes, cleaning out existing ditches to reestablish tidal flow and selectively using herbicides in targeted areas to control less desirable, invasive plants such as phragmites.

Coastal habitat restoration has focused on restoring degraded tidal saltmarshes through a variety of techniques including dredge spoil removal, replacement of undersized culverts to provide adequate tidal exchange, and selective herbicides to control phragmites, an invasive grass. These integrated management techniques involve the creation of interconnected, shallow water channels and pannes (small, open water areas within a saltmarsh) in the marsh to reestablish the hydrology of the marsh and provide habitat for small fish that feed on mosquito larva.

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