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Living Shorelines & Habitat RestorationHow do we effectively incorporate habitat components into shoreline

restoration and enhancement

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Living Shorelines are About … “Process”

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Yantz Cove - 1994 Yantz Cove - 2007

Littoral DriftLittoral Drift

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Dune Formation

Process & Habitat are Linked Together

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Eroding Cliff

Stable Beach

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“HABITAT”

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Erosion Is Not Necessarily a Bad Thing

Some of the Best Shorelines are Those That

Provide for a Diversity of Habitat

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Offshore Considerations

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Gibson IslandDobbins Island

Oyster Bottom Survey Completed in the Early 1900’s

Chester River Area

Oyster Reef in Virginia

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Submerged Oyster Reef

Eastern Bay

Horsehead Living Shoreline Project

Marsh Breakwaters

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Horsehead Environmental Ctr.

Project Location

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During Construction

After construction

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Offshore

Structures

Colonized By:

Mussels, Clams,

Oysters,

Barnacles…

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Spaniard Pt. (before)

Spaniard Pt. (after)

Use of Headland Control

Structures

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Vegetation

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Woody Debris

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Rock Placement

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