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This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button Select “Meeting Minder” Select the “Action Items” tab
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This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation • In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button • Select “Meeting Minder” • Select the “Action Items” tab • Type in action items as they come up • Click OK to dismiss this box • This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered. RESTORING COASTAL HABITAT IN THE GULF OF MAINECapitol Hill Oceans WeekWashington, DC June 7-9, 2005 Jon Kachmar Habitat Restoration Coordinator Maine State Planning Office / Gulf of Maine Council
Gulf of Maine Council/NOAA Habitat Restoration Partnership 2002-2005 GRANTS PROGRAM FOR HABITAT RESTORATION IN THE GULF OF MAINE • Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia • $300,000 per year for competitive community-based restoration grants • Gulf of Maine Council partnership with the NOAA Restoration Center TOTAL AWARDS: $1.2 million TOTAL MATCH: $3.9 million TOTAL PROJECT VALUE: $5.4 million NUMBER OF PROJECTS: MA: 20 , NH: 5 ME: 16, NB: 1, NS: 1 TOTAL: 43
HABITAT RESTORED Note: Some of this represents feasibility work and it is assumed habitat will be restored once the entire project is implemented. Habitat restored also includes other funding sources.
BRIDGE CREEK CULVERT REPLACEMENT BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS Before--Undersized culvert with scour and phragmites (common reed) After--Appropriately sized culvert replacement with greater flow and less phragmites
Little River Marsh Rye, New Hampshire Before culvert replacement… After culvert replacement…
Pemaquid Salt MarshBristol, Maine Crushed culvert before… Properly sized culvert after…
TOWN BROOK DAM REMOVAL / BANK RESTORATIONPLYMOUTH, MASSACUSETTS
Challenges to Coastal Restoration? • Finding applicants who have the technical capacity to develop and manage projects • Scarcity of non-federal funds to match federal grant opportunities • Lack of coordinated coastal land use policies for regional wetlands management
Recommendations for Improving Coastal Wetlands Restoration Efforts • Focus funding, training and technical assistance on capacity building at the local level • Encourage local / state government and private sector to dedicate funding for restoration projects • Evaluate regional coastal land use impacts on wetlands and consider actions
CONTACT INFORMATION Jon Kachmar Habitat Restoration Coordinator Maine Coastal Program/Gulf of Maine Council 207-287-1913 Jon.kachmar@maine.gov