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Wetland Adaptive Stewardship

Reclaim Your Wetlands Without Poisoning Your Water

Invasive species, phragmites, Japanese knotweed, purple loosestrife, porcelain berry, are choking Long Island’s municipal wetlands. They block picturesque views, destroy native habitat, impede tidal flow, and reduce the stormwater capacity that your wetlands are supposed to provide.

The conventional approach is herbicide-based, spray and kill. But herbicides in wetland environments don’t stay in the wetland. They enter the water column, flow into the bays and estuaries your community depends on, and accumulate in the sediment where shellfish and aquatic life feed.

Our strategy is biological. We exhaust the invasive plant’s root system without poisoning the water.

Mechanical and Biological Removal
We combine targeted mechanical removal with strategic timing to exhaust invasive root reserves. By cutting at the point in the growth cycle when the plant has invested maximum energy in above-ground biomass, we force it to spend down its root reserves. Repeated targeted intervention over two to three seasons depletes the plant’s ability to regenerate.
As invasive species are suppressed, we replant with salt-tolerant native plant species that replenish tidal flow and restore your marsh naturally. These native communities outcompete residual invasive pressure, rebuild the biological productivity of the wetland, and restore the stormwater filtration capacity the wetland was originally providing.
Invasive species often impede tidal flow, creating stagnant conditions that breed mosquitoes and accelerate sedimentation. Restoring native vegetation reopens tidal channels, reestablishes natural water movement, and recovers the habitat that supports fish, shellfish, wading birds, and the aquatic food web.
  • The health case - Herbicide-free wetland management means cleaner water flowing into the bays and estuaries your community depends on for recreation, fishing, and ecological health. It means no chemical residue accumulating in the sediment where shellfish feed. And restored tidal flow reduces the stagnant water conditions that breed mosquitoes, a direct intervention in vector-borne disease risk for surrounding neighborhoods.
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Restore Balance to Your Wetland Ecosystems

Tell us about your wetland conditions, invasive growth, and site challenges—our team will design ecological control strategies that remove invasive species and restore healthy native wetland function.