Projects
Conservation Easement Monitoring
Conservation easement monitoring is a recurring process that involves the BWGC and, optionally, landowner to ensure that the stipulations and conditions specified in the conservation easement are upheld. These activities are essential to maintaining the trust that landowners place in the BWGC to be proper conservation stewards.
Restoration
Years of land abuse or neglect cause a reduction of native habitat. The most prevalent examples are the seemingly slow shift from native plants to invasive species. Restoration involves a recurring set of planning, execution and monitoring activities that systemically improve the land's plant and animal habitat. While progress often seems slow, clear signs of improvements in biodiversity exist where restoration has occurred.
Stream/Water Monitoring
The wetlands within the B-W Greenway provide an important role of filtering impurities from the watersheds that drain into them. However, they alone may be insufficient toward reducing recurring or significant sources of pollutants. Our stream and water monitoring project attempts to both baseline average key water quality indicators as well as identify fluctuations--especially negative ones that signify the onset of decreased water quality.
Rain Gardens
Excess rainwater is drained via natural and human drainage systems. As human development forces needs for improved flood or ground water controls, additional drainage often overburdens natural systems--including creeks and rivers. Rain gardens are a natural way to slow "spikes" of rainwater run-off by passing the water through a system of plantings or "garden".
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