Ecosystem restoration is assisting the recovery of a damaged system so it functions again — hydrology, soils, vegetation, and the fauna that follow. On our coast that is usually marsh, SAV, dune, stream, or pine savanna — not a generic “forests, wetlands & oceans” essay.
Restoration is not landscaping, and it is not automatic mitigation credit. Credit requires a permittee-responsible plan or a bank instrument the agencies approved.
What success is
Water at the right elevation, for the right hydroperiod, with the right salinity; vegetation that holds; invasives that do not take the site back. Monitoring is part of the job. A planting plan with no water budget is a wish.
Cypress Environment & Infrastructure designs and permits restoration when it is the project — or when it is the mitigation for one.
Questions about how this applies to a Gulf Coast site? Cypress Environment & Infrastructure works from Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola. Office hours are Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
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