What: A wet meadow restoration day benefitting Strawberry Meadow - a drainage of Strawberry Creek
Where: East of Atlantic City
When: September 5th and 6th
In partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, we are conducting a habitat project on Strawberry Meadow, a drainage of Strawberry Creek, east of Atlantic City. We'll be building Zeedyk structures to help reduce erosion, keep water on the landscape longer, and enhance the foraging for wildlife. Volunteers will be helping to move rocks and build structures!
More Information:
Strawberry Meadown has some incised stream channels and headcutting throughout the wet meadow. A headcut is a knickpoint in a wet meadow where water falls and creates a deepening pool, washing away sediment as it creeps up the drainage, eventually causing an incised channel.
There are multiple ways to address a wet meadow system exhibiting signs of erosion, including Zeedyk structures. We will be building several structures, including the One Rock Dam and the Zuni bowl. A One Rock Dam is a dam structure that is one rock high and works with water to capture sediment and reconnect the channel to the floodplain. A Zuni bowl is a structure that is specifically designed to halt a headcut and preserve the meadow above the headcut.
Learn more about wet meadow restoration using Zeedyk structures here.