National Wetlands Research Center

Reforestation / Restoration

Although programs for financial assistance promote wetland restoration, many plantings are unsuccessful. Center scientists are studying restoration techniques in state and national wildlife refuges to develop cost-effective, state-of-the-art methodologies.

Research

• Baldcypress Regeneration at Caddo Lake, TX
• Effects of Flooding Regimes, Mycorrhizal Inoculation, and Planting Stock Type on Establishment of Nuttall Oak (Dr. Virginia Burkett)
• Impact of Department of Interior Activities on Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Natural and Restored Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region and the Lower Mississippi River Valley (Drs. Stephen Faulkner and Ned Euliss)
• Improved Restoration of Southern California Coastal Wetland Habitats (Dr. Virginia Burkett)
• Landscape Position and Carbon Controls Over Denitrification in the Mississippi Delta (Dr. Stephen Faulkner)
• Prioritizing Bottomland Hardwood Forest Sites for Conservation and Augmentation (Dr. Jacoby Carter)
• Natural Invasion of Woody Species on Cropped Wetlands in the Mississippi Delta (John McCoy)
• Bald Cypress Regeneration
• Bottomland Hardwood Restoration Manual
  

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