Staff fromthe N.J. Department of Environmental Protection, the Barnegat Bay Partnership and Partnership for the Delaware Estuary recently completed installation of a living shoreline near the caretaker’s house at the Sedge Island Natural Resource Education Center, a renovated duck hunting lodge on an island in Barnegat Bay. The project’s goal is to slow post-Superstorm Sandy erosion and promote natural accretion of the coastal wetland.
As the NJDEP’s Division of Fish and Wildlife explains, “Living shorelines may include rock, concrete and other…
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