Wetland restoration is returning a drained, filled, or otherwise degraded wetland to wetland hydrology, soils, and vegetation. Enhancement and creation are related but not the same: enhancement improves a wetland that is still a wetland; creation builds one where the mapping did not show one.
What actually has to be true
- A water budget — not just plants.
- Grades and structures that hold the hydroperiod.
- A planting and invasive plan matched to salinity and soils.
- Monitoring long enough to prove it, if the site is mitigation.
Cypress Environment & Infrastructure does restoration as a project and as 404 mitigation. We will say when a site will not restore.
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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