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Mount Holly Riparian Forest Buffer Projects
Project II
Location:
Rancocas Creek, North Branch
Mill Dam / Iron Works Park, Pine Street,
Mount Holly, NJ
(continuing downstream from Project I)
Date Planted:
March/May 2000
Land Use:
Municipal Park
Buffer Composition:
550 native trees and shrubs - 50 species (containerized and balled-and-burlapped)
500 native herbaceous plants - 52 species(gallon- and quart-sized containers)
Buffer Size:
2,100 feet X 60 feet (average)
 Before
- Rancocas Creek - Downstream from Project I
After
- Rancocas Creek - Downstream from Project I
Design Components
- Riparian forest buffer
- Herbaceous beds along buffer's edge
- Streambank stabilization
- Recreation trail
Downstream
View from Footbridge
Dominant Native Plant Species:
Listed in descending order of frequency of occurrence
Trees - Overstory
White ash - Fraxinus americana
Black oak - Quercus velutina
Willow oak - Quercus phellos
Linden - Tilia Americana
Swamp white oak - Quercus bicolor
American beech - Fagus grandifolia
Trees - Understory
Black gum - Nyssa sylvatica
Shadbush - Amelanchier canadensis
Ironwood - Carpinus caroliniana
Rough alder - Alnus incana
Gray birch - Betula populifolia
Shrubs
Gray dogwood - Cornus racemosa
Chokeberry - Aronia spp.
Buttonbush - Cephalanthus occidentalis
Winterberry - Ilex verticillata
Possumhaw - Viburnum nudum
Steeplebush - Spirea tomentosa
Highbush blueberry - Vaccinium corymbosum
Streambank
Stabilization - Upstream from Project I - Spring 2000
Organizations:
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Burlington County Soil Conservation
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Participants:
Rancocas Valley Regional High School
Streambank
Stabilization - Upstream from Project I - Fall 2000
Funding
United States Environmental Protection Agency 319h Grant Program and New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection
Grant Administration: New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection Division of Watershed Management
Formal
Native Plant Demonstration: Color, Texture, Overall Aesthetics - Downstream
from Project I - Spring 2000
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