Lost River Preserve Fisheries Habitat Restoration Project - Restore ...
Lost River Preserve Fisheries Habitat Restoration Project - Restore ...
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Implementing ARRA-Funded <strong>Habitat</strong> <strong>Restoration</strong>:<br />
Finding Solutions at <strong>Lost</strong> <strong>River</strong> <strong>Preserve</strong><br />
Thomas Ries<br />
Marti McGuire
ARRA <strong>Project</strong> Results<br />
• Strategic Partnerships<br />
• Socio-economic Impacts<br />
• Innovative Solutions<br />
• Design for Sea Level Rise<br />
• Initial Research Results<br />
• ARRA Reporting
Cockroach Bay
Current Site Conditions
1938 Aerial
1957 Aerial
Original <strong>Restoration</strong> Plan
Grants/Funds<br />
• Ecosphere $ 4,000 10/07<br />
• ELAPP $ 68,175 05/08<br />
• Gulf Of Mexico $ 65,000 01/08<br />
• SWFWMD $150,000 10/08<br />
• SWFWMD $ 50,000 10/09<br />
• Total $337,175
Key Map
NOAA Stimulus Funding<br />
• May 2009 Notice of funding - $168M<br />
• Applications due June 2009<br />
• 814 Applications Received Nationwide<br />
• 50 Awards Nationally<br />
• 3 in Peninsular Florida
<strong>Lost</strong> <strong>River</strong> <strong>Preserve</strong> – Awarded $750,000.00
Total Grants Funds<br />
• Ecosphere $ 4,000<br />
• ELAPP $ 68,175<br />
• Gulf Of Mexico $ 65,000<br />
• SWFWMD $ 200,000<br />
• NOAA $ 750,000<br />
• Total $1,087,175
freshwater).
Monitoring Plan<br />
Three formal monitoring programs will be employed to assess<br />
the effectiveness of the restoration project:<br />
1) Document the natural colonization of amphibians;<br />
including species richness, abundance, and colonization<br />
processes within the isolated freshwater ponds;<br />
2) Document the natural recruitment of native vegetation<br />
within the newly created wetland communities; and,<br />
3) Document and identify the aquatic inhabitants via seining<br />
of the created wetland pools (estuarine and freshwater).
Initial Monitoring Results<br />
• Saltwater lagoon<br />
– 21 species of fish were captured during the<br />
first sampling event<br />
– Snook were found in 4 out of the 5 sites<br />
– Shrimp and blue crabs<br />
• Freshwater Pond<br />
– 4 species of freshwater fish<br />
– Mosquito larva and tadpoles
Award Requirements<br />
• Shovel-ready projects (including permits)<br />
• Signage Identifying NOAA & Recovery Act<br />
• Quarterly Reports ($ spent; # jobs created)<br />
• Contracts must be advertized and bid<br />
• Davis-Bacon Act, Equal Labor Procedures<br />
• Grants On Line, CCR, Federal Reporting,<br />
ASAP system, & ARRA guidelines<br />
• Scientific monitoring plan<br />
• Built within 2 years
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