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r <br />SECTIOHTWO Enuironmentai Setting <br />2.9.4 Habitat Restoration <br />The locations, sizes, and methods of accretion land clearing projects appear to be adequately <br />documented, although specific details are lacking for some areas. There appears to be limited <br />documentation of habitat changes and conditions resulting from the projects. <br />The creation of nesting habitat for least terns and piping plovers has been well documented by <br />NPPD and provides an adequate baseline. <br />The relative -success of the Trust's bottomland grassland and wet meadow restoration projects <br />has not been well documented to date. The three demonstration wet meadow enhancement . <br />projects are in early stages of completion, but include provisions for detailed monitoring. <br />Restoration of wetlands is often difficult (Kusler and Kentula 1990): partial failures are <br />common, the ability to restore or create particular wetland functions varies by function, long- <br />term success may be quite different than short-term success, and total duplication of naturally - <br />functioning wetlands is probably impossible. Evaluation of the success of restoration projects <br />will depend on having specific goals and use of monitoring to assess achievement of those goals. <br />The existing knowledge of native wet meadow processes and functions may not be sufficient to <br />identify good criteria for assessing success of restoration. <br />1 <br />7 <br />'A <br />i <br />_J <br />!1 <br />J <br />1 <br />lU brier Wwdward Ctyrde <br />68FOD9728600 /rl.doc 6/2/1999(9:52AM)AJRSGWCFS2 2-15 <br />