2019 VT Riparian Buffer Working Group Meeting Materials: Riparian Habitat Restoration Monitoring Updates

Publication Year: 
2019
Author(s): 
Annalise Carington, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, USFWS
File: 
PDF icon Carington_Monitoring_2018_Updates.pdf
Summary: 

Presentation slides updating the community on monitoring of 27 restoration sites across 7 watersheds in Vermont. Monitoring was done in 2013 and 2018. Overall survivorship was 48% in 2018, but was highly variable between sites. Describes survivorship and growth by species and outlines management implications, which include:

  • Important to focus on pioneer and early successional species
  • Choose species appropriate for particular site conditions
  • May be better to plant less diversity but higher performing species
  • Balled/burlap, container, and tublings did NOT outperform bare root stock long-term