The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) has published an online guide that offers practical, science-based information and instructive illustrations for managing shoreline properties. Residents can use it to improve the condition of nearby tidal wetlands and strengthen the resilience of homes and neighborhoods as sea levels rise.
The guide, Caring for Our Marshes: A Guide for New Hampshire’s Seacoast, consists of a website with background information about the benefits, threats, wildlife and culture of New Hampshire tidal marshes, in addition to best practices. Additional products include a four-page summary document of the guide.
Caring for Our Marshes was developed through a partnership between NHDES and the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, with technical review and guidance from an Advisory Group of experts from municipal governments, nonprofits, universities, and the private sector on New Hampshire salt marsh ecology, land use planning, permitting, landowner technical assistance, landscape architecture, and science communication.
The project was funded in part by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management. [Elkins]
