Amazing habitat project by my buddy Blaine Rothouser, GZA, on an industrial site on Newark Bay. Bring on the terrapins, osprey, and Kestrel.

1. Blaine Rothauser, GZA
Ecologist, straight up cool guy

2. Firmenich, Inc. Flavors and Perfumes

5. Diamondback terrapin nesting
habitat
Native
grasses
and
forbs
Newark
Bay
Diamondback terrapin nesting
habitat

8. Firmenich is here to
manufacture fragrances
and flavorings

11. We plant 250 native shrubs and 580 native herbaceous
plugs. We hammer in nest boxes, install pollinator houses,
construct mounds of brush for local and migrating wildlife,
and create nesting habitat for northern diamondback
terrapin, an at-risk turtle species.

13. Restoration 101:
Save the good stuff,
rip out the bad stuff,
plant more good
stuff
Restoration 101:
Repeat.

14. Know the
ecology
Phragmito
Newark Bay-o
Cottonwood-o
Spartino

17. If you build it,
They will come!

18. This is a lined lagoon. Habitat?

19. Chicks just born on
my site in Keasbey, NJ
(apparently they
don’t read the papers
that it is an industrial
site)
Green ash,
Fraxinus
pennsylvanica,
planted 2014

21. Even one tree
makes a difference
“Don’t let perfection
get in the way of
excellence”

22. by David Wheeler
Wildlife returns to the industrial Newark Bay waterfront
November 1st, 2016
Under the sweltering September sun, our team discovers the earth at our fingertips. We ready the manure,
topsoil, and mulch, wield the pickax and trowel, and labor the wheelbarrow through the trees and up the slope
of a tidal berm.
Thank you. Now
get out of here, I
mean it.