With the support of a Mass Wildlife Habitat Management Grant, our team started work in January 2023 to restore 20 acres of coastal shrubland and young forest to increase the resiliency of Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary to the impacts of climate change. We had six months to transform a large area of invasive brush into native shrubland.
This 20-acre project area was a dense stand of invasive Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora), Morrows Honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii), and Asian Bittersweet (Celatrus orbicultus). We collaborated with a local contractor to get most of the invasive brush cut and removed with machinery and by hand.
The transformation of this once degraded area will provide habitat for wildlife, increasing productivity and resiliency as native plants recolonize the area. The native seeds you all collected like Baccharis (Baccharis halimiofia), Goldenrod (Solidago), and Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) are ready to be spread across the project area. We need your help to disperse the native seeds! Please join us for this volunteer seed dispersal event to continue our work of restoring this habitat.
