The Ash Creek Conservation Association hired two environmental experts, a wetlands scientist, Dr. Steve Danzer, and an ecological landscape designer, Bryan Quinn to review the plantings by the City and provide suggestions for habitat improvements going forward. We’ve shared copies of the report with both…
This morning the City planted 300 containers of American Beach Grass, 50 Beach Plum shrubs, 50 Sand Cherry shrubs, and 50 Staghorn Sumac bushes at the sand spit. They didn’t prepare the soil and don’t plan to water the plantings (please click on Read More at bottom). The forecast doesn’t call…
The City of Bridgeport will begin plantings tomorrow along the area facing the Sound, where the beach grass plantings had been scraped off earlier this summer. The City met with the Ash Creek Conservation Association, the Black Rock NRZ, and…
ASSESSMENT OF STORM DAMAGE TO ST. MARY’S SAND SPIT, ASH CREEK The Ash Creek Conservation Association asked Steven Danzer, Ph.D., who has his doctorate in Natural Resources and is also a Soil Scientist (listed by the Society of Soil Scientists…