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Blaine Rothauser, GZAEcologist, straight up cool guy
Firmenich, Inc. Flavors and Perfumes
Diamondback terrapin nesting habitat
Native grasses and forbs
Newark Bay
Diamondback terrapin nesting habitat
Firmenich is here to manufacture fragrances and flavorings
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.
Restoration 101:Save the good stuff, rip out the bad stuff, plant more good stuff
Restoration 101:Repeat.
Know the ecology
Phragmito
Newark Bay-o
Cottonwood-o
Spartino
If you build it, They will come!
This is a lined lagoon. Habitat?
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
Even one tree makes a difference
“Don’t let perfection get in the way of excellence”
by David Wheeler
Wildlife returns to the industrial Newark Bay waterfrontNovember 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.