Ganawenindiwag introduces readers to 97 plant beings with photos and iconography sharing known cultural relationships, and text that describes environmental preferences and bank stabilization potential. The resource is infused with a rich narrative that highlights Ojibwe land stewardship and includes tips on planning and caring for shoreline planting projects.
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Keywords: cultural ecosystem services, sustainable shoreline, land use planning
Project lead Karina Heim gives a short introduction to "Greener Shores: Bringing Plant-scale Knowledge to Shoreline Habitat Practitioners in the Lake Superior (Gichigami) Basin."
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Keywords: cultural ecosystem services, sustainable shoreline, land use planning, indigenous knowledge
GUIDE CASE STUDY: To help elevate the cultural significance of plants and preserve their knowledge, Indigenous knowledge holders agreed to advise a project team as they developed a planting guide for the Gichi-gami basin. As discussions began, the team quickly discovered differing expectations about what and how Indigenous knowledge would inform the final guide.
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Keywords: land use planning, cultural ecosystem services, shoreline stabilization, Indigenous science
Rising coastal flood risk and recent disasters are driving interest in the construction of gated storm surge barriers worldwide, with current studies recommending barriers for at least 11 estuaries in the United States alone.
This data resource includes marsh vegetation, water level data and modeling outputs from a project that examined how Piermont Marsh in New York buffers the impacts of storms.
This guidance report from New York State ’s Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of State provides an overview of natural resilience measures and how they can reduce risk of flooding and erosion.
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Keywords: living shoreline, resilience, risk management
This website houses the Rapid Assessment Protocol for assessing the physical and ecological performance of nature-based engineered shoreline structures. You can also access additional resources associated with the Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines Project, including demonstration site case studies along the Hudson River.
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Keywords: living shoreline, shoreline stabilization, sustainable shoreline
This resource contains the presenter slides, Q&A responses, recording, and presenter bios from the April 2019 webinar New Research to Inform Living Shoreline Design, Placement and Monitoring.
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Keywords: living shoreline, shoreline stabilization, shoreline management, sustainable shoreline
Reserves: Chesapeake Bay, MD, Guana Tolomato Matanzas, FL, Hudson River, NY, North Carolina, North Inlet-Winyah Bay, SC, Weeks Bay, AL
This collection features living shorelines work completed by project teams from 2015-2019. The collection includes a detailed management brief narrative, an infographic showing different shoreline stabilization strategies and how they vary across locations in order to suit the conditions present, and a webinar recording from a panel discussion on April 11, 2019.