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Ecosystem Restoration

Part of the NRCS mission is to help people improve our natural resources and environment. This includes assessing and restoring degraded ecosystems. The objective of ecosystem restoration is to restore and maintain the physical, chemical, and biological conditions necessary to allow a natural and native ecosystem to function and evolve over time. 

The Natural Ecosystem Restoration Procedure is:

  1. Understand the ecosystem under natural conditions

  2. Understand the human-caused stressors that have degraded the system

  3. Figure out how to relieve the stressors

The ecosystem restoration efforts in New Hampshire NRCS have been primarily with wetland and salt marsh restoration, and pine barren restoration. Most of these projects have been done under our Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program or our Wetlands Reserve Program. Find out more about our ecosystem restoration efforts by visiting the links below.  

Salt Marshes


The following documents on ecosystem restoration are available for download.  These documents require Adobe Acrobat 

Adobe Acrobat documentManaging and Restoring Native Ecosystems: A Guide for New Hampshire Towns (1.4MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentEvaluation of Restorable Salt Marshes in New Hampshire (1.9 MB) 
Adobe Acrobat documentEcosystem Restoration Planning Guide for Salt Marshes (4.5 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentEcosystem Restoration Guide for Pine Barrens (Drylands) (1.4 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentPine Barrens Restoration Brochure (196 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentSalt Marsh Restoration Brochure (200 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentAwcomin Salt Marsh Environmental Assessment (197 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentLittle River Salt Marsh Restoration:  Plan and Environmental Assessment (2.0 MB)
Adobe Acrobat documentNative Ecosystem Map for Rye, New Hampshire (565 KB)
Adobe Acrobat documentNew Hampshire Method Document (5740 KB)  Appendices (1620 KB)