The Fowl Meadow Area of Critical Environmental Concern, covered in flowering exotic, invasive Purple loosestrife, Aug. 2001-2005. Credit: DCR.

Wetland Restoration 

Fowl Meadow Purple loosestrife 

biological control project

Beetle-Ranching

Learn more about beetle ranching from the University of Minnesota..

Learn more about beetle ranching from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge and York County Soil & Water Conservation District.

View the PowerPoint presentation shown by project partners NepRWA and DCR at the March 2010 Fowl Meadow Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Volunteer Training Sessions.

View the Beetle Ranching volunteer activity schedule.

3 Beetle Ranching videos produced by independent video producer Bruce Jones, for Norwood Public Access TV, and starring high school student Kate Tatar, summer 2011:

 

 

 

 

Monitoring:  Tutorial

Learn how to monitor study sites, from Cornell University.

Purple Loosestrife:  Significance to the Environment & Management

Purple loosestrife invasiveness & more.

Controlling Purple loosestrife populations.

Galerucella beetles as a biological control method for Purple loosestrife.

Purple loosestrife biocontrol program of the MA Division of Ecological Restoration (formerly the MA Wetlands Restoration Program).

Neponset / Fowl Meadow Purple Loosestrife Biocontrol Project

Project Pictures & Video

View the latest project pictures.

Local wetland plants & wildlife.

Watch videos & listen to radio shows about the project.

Project Treatment Sites

 

Learn more about the Fowl Meadow site.

Learn about wetlands.

Get Involved!

Volunteer for this project

Miscellaneous

Read a blog about invasive species in the Eastern USA.

For more information, contact NepRWA Restoration Manager Carly Rocklen at 781-575-0354 x303 or rocklen@neponset.org

October 2011