March 2015
For the third and final presentation of the 2015 On Pettaquamscutt winter speaker series, Wenley Ferguson of Save the Bay and Nick Ernst of USFWS explained the various strategies for marsh adaptation being used in Narrow River and throughout the Narragansett Bay Estuary.
Some of the tools in the Narrow River strategy include:
- Dredging in selected locations to improve channel flow and promote eel grass growth
- Marsh edge protection using coir logs and bagged oyster shells (a method also being evaluated near Middlebridge)
- Digging runnels and repairing existing ones to improve surface drainage.
