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by Molly Bogeberg (Marine Conservation Supervisor), Amber Parmenter (Puget Sound Stewardship Coordinator), Randi Shaw (Stewardship Director), and Emily Howe (Aquatic Ecologist)
The Nature Conservancy in Washington exams explosives as a option to create and reconnect estuary channels at our Port Susan Bay estuary protect, creating more healthy habitat with fewer long-term penalties for the ecosystem than conventional strategies.
Utilizing dynamite for restoration might look like a paradox, however at TNC’s Port Susan Bay Protect, we explored dynamite as a option to create estuary channels. The inspiration behind this methodology was to see if explosives may cut back the ecological affect of channel creation compared to utilizing heavy equipment.
From the bottom up
In 2012, TNC took step one towards restoring the Port Susan Bay estuary by reconnecting agricultural land to the ocean, permitting the land to be re-flooded, and returning estuary habitat to the decrease Stillaguamish River Delta.
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