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Normandeau Final Phragmites Report

10/30/2020

 
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In 2019 FOSM worked with partners to develop a strategy and secure funding for implementing the report recommendations. Learn more about fighting Phragmites, and what the results of months of testing have provided us by clicking the file below! Thank you to Normandeau Associates, Inc for helping FOSM with the testing, and pulling of this report. Learn More...

Fact sheet: A RESOURCE TO TREASURE

5/6/2014

 
10 Things YOU Can Do for Scarborough Marsh   
Scarborough Marsh: A Resource to Treasure
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Scarborough Marsh: Focus Areas of Statewide Ecological Significance (Beginning With Habitat)
Tidal marshes form in low-lying coastal areas that are sheltered from strong winds, waves, and currents. Nourished by tidal flows and with rapidly growing grasses, salt marshes form the basis of a highly productive food web. They are complex natural systems which support different plants and animals in a variety of habitats. In addition to nourishing many species of birds, finfish, shellfish, and invertebrates, marshes buffer upland shorelines against erosive actions of open water, protect low-lying uplands and shorelines during storms, and maintain water quality.

Maine's salt marshes RESOURCE GUIDE

5/5/2014

 
Maine's Salt Marshes: Their Functions, Values, and Restoration (Gulf of Maine Council)
This guide looks at key questions: What Are Salt Marshes? Who Needs Salt Marshes? Why Are Many Salt Marshes in Trouble? What Can Be Done to Improve Degraded Salt Marshes? Plus offers resources for further inquiry and a useful glossary.
You might also like to see why we think the marsh is a treasure.
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Salt Marsh Vegetation ZONES

5/9/2012

 
With thanks to Maine Sea Grant program for this image; please visit their site for more info.
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Protecting MainE's Wetlands

5/5/2008

 
Protecting Maine's Wetlands: Linking Maine's Past with Its Future (2007, Lois Winter, Stewart Fefer, USWFS, National Wetlands Newsletter)

Monitoring Maine Salt marshes

5/6/2004

 
A Volunteer's Handbook for Monitoring Maine Salt Marshes (Ducks Unlimited, Maine SeaGrant, et al., 2004)

Habitat restoration strategy

5/2/2004

 
Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration Strategy (Gulf of Maine Council)
Maine Property Owner's Guide to Managing Flooding, Erosion & Other Coastal Hazards
 (Maine Sea Grant Program)

Protection & Restoration Strategy

5/6/2002

 
Protection & Restoration Strategy for the Scarborough Marsh Watershed (Prepared for Friends of Scarborough Marsh by Normandeau Associates, Inc. and Terence J. Dewan & Associates. 2002)

Maine Audubon's Report on the Scarborough Marsh

5/6/1999

 
The Scarborough Marsh: Historical Impacts, Current Conditions, and Restoration Potential (Maine Audubon. 1999)   This is the report that started it all! Shortly after the publication of Maine Audubon's report in 1999, a small group of concerned citizens and representatives from partner groups took the first steps to form the Friends of Scarborough Marsh.

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