Location: Orange County
Project Type: Restoration
Status: Completed
Habitat Type: coastal wetland
Date Completed: 2015
Cost: $156,000
Area Affected: 1 acres
Assembly District: 74
Senate District: 37
Project Lead/Grantee:
Orange County Coastkeeper
For more information, visit scwrp.org
This project restored 1.417 acres of eelgrass adjacent to the newly restored habitat in the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve.
While the main goal of the project was to restore eelgrass throughout its historical range in Upper Newport Bay, researchers also developed and tested effective, innovative, and cost-effective strategies of restoring and managing this important sea grass habitat, and determined the most successful method of planting was bare-root bundling.
