Health & Fitness
Restoration of DPNC Meadow Habitat Nearly Complete
In June, a representative of the NRCS came for a tour of the property to gauge success and was pleased with the new growth of native herbaceous plants such as milkweed and the relative lack of invasive species such as Autumn Olive.
Mystic, CT (July 21, 2014) — The Nature Center is in the process of closing out a six-year federally funded project to restore the shrubland/grassland/meadow habitat around the Nature Center and Denison Homestead properties along Pequotsepos Road and Mistuxet Avenue.
The DPNC is recognized as one of the best places in Connecticut to find a diversity of birds and other wildlife. Restoring the early-successional habitat aids our efforts to continue to provide quality habitat for American Woodcock, Blue-winged Prairie warbler, Eastern Towhee, Brown Thrasher, as well as New England Cottontail, Hognose snake and other old field species known to inhabit the preserve now or in the recent past.
The $26,000 Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program grant awarded to the Nature Center in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) involved the clearing of 3 acres of invasive vine and shrubs around the Denison Farm fields on the west side of Pequotsepos Road.To read the rest of this post, please visit our website.
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