Using the NH Salt Marsh Plan to Advance Tidal Wetland Resilience
noon – 1pm, Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Webinar presented by
- Rachel Stevens, Stewardship Coordinator and Wildlife Ecologist with the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
- With comments from Kevin Lucey from the DES Coastal Program and Sarah Large from FB Environmental
Description: Squeezed between rising seas and landward development, many of New Hampshire’s tidal wetlands are in danger of disappearing. Deciding how to protect them requires the ability to conduct “apples to apples’’ comparisons of marshes across the coastal landscape. The New Hampshire Salt Marsh Plan was designed to meet that need.
In this webinar, we reviewed the set of spatial planning tools and management guidance that are the core of the NH Salt Marsh Plan. We also explored a few real world examples of how the Plan has been used to help protect, restore or study salt marshes in NH.
Salt Marsh Plan references
- Webinar Recording
- The NH Salt Marsh Plan Webpage, with links to the User Guide and other products
- The Salt Marsh Plan Viewer
- Access the GIS data
Examples of the Salt Mash Plan in action that were discussed in the webinar
- Several regional plans – the NH Coastal Watershed Conservation Plan and the NH Wildlife Action Plan and Salt Marsh Sparrow Planning – and the New Castle Master Plan (page 24 – 25) incorporated spatial data and maps from the Salt Marsh Plan as they were identifying priority areas for protection.
- The Hampton Seabrook Estuary Management Plan as well as the Stratham Open Space Plan and Hampton Natural Resources Inventory incorporated metrics from the NH Salt Marsh Plan (although the later two are not yet final and public.)
What ideas does this spark?
We encourage you to explore the Salt Marsh Plan resources on your own and complete a request form here if you’d like to discuss how to use the products or data for use in your restoration, land use planning and conservation work.
