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WETLAND RESTORATION COMPLETED Soundview Park 2011-2012 Soundview Park (with ACE) 3 acre salt marsh 12 acre coastal grassland and forest

Pugsley Creek Park 1.3 acre saltmarsh

Pelham Bay Park at Tallapoosa and Turlte Cove (with DEC) >3 acres of salt marsh and mudflat

Pugsley Creek 2010-2011 (after Superstorm Sandy) Alley Creek, (with DEP) 7 acres salt marsh

Gerritsen Creek, Marine Park (with ACE) 23 acres salt marsh 20 acres coastal grassland and forest WETLANDS RESTORATION IN PROGRESS In Construction Dreier Offerman Park Coastal Habitat Improvement 2 acres of sandy beach and salt marsh 1.5 acres of coastal maritime uplands

In Design Meadow Lake Habitat Restoration Project 1 acre wetland and wet meadow 1 acre forest and shrubland Dreier Offerman shoreline 0.4 acre bioretention basin

Spring Creek Habitat Restoration (with ACE) 10-15 acres salt marsh 15-18 acres grassland and forest

Sunset Cove Park Restoration 5-7 acres salt marsh Sunset Cove 1-2 acres maritime shrubland and forest restoration concept COASTAL FOREST RESTORATION UPDATES

North Brother Island Grant-funded Habitat Restoration • Recently received amendment and extension of DOS grant to 2014 • Active restoration will begin mid-late summer 2013

Impact of Hurricane Sandy • Scouring along north and east shore • New accumulations of debris

East of hospital building COASTAL FOREST RESTORATION UPDATES

Jamaica Bay Grant-funded Habitat Restoration • Invasive control and removal in Rockaway Community Park, Park and Dubos Point

• Coastal clean-ups along shoreline through Natural Areas Volunteers Before

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Summer 2012 COASTAL FOREST RESTORATION UPDATES

Conference House Park Grant-funded Habitat Restoration • Recently completed second phase • Over the last 6 years, approximately 80 acres of restoration

Impact of Hurricane Sandy • Lower Shore overwashed • Impacts to bluffs • Rack and salt in upland areas