Seven successes show there’s more than one way to restore a wetland

Seven unique wetland projects from across the Bay watershed

By Jake Solyst |
A woman wearing a dark baseball cap and bright yellow life vest paddles a canoe through calm water and past a small wetland, which is protected by a fence.
Emily Castelli of the Anacostia Watershed Society navigates Kingman Marsh while dropping hatchery-raised freshwater mussels into the stretch of the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Wetland grasses and other vegetation grow in a flooded channel in front of a small town, marked by homes and a water tower.
Vegetated channels are designed to trap and filter stormwater in a restored wetland in Laurel, Maryland. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A great egret stands in stark contrast to green wetland plants growing on the bank of the Anacostia River.
A great egret visits Kingman Lake along the Anacostia River near Kingman Island in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A creek winds through bright green marsh grass, toward a floating dock and, in the far distance, construction cranes.
The wetlands at Paradise Creek Nature Park in Portsmouth, Va., exist in stark contrast to surrounding industrial sites. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A collage of two images. In one, a group of people gather at dusk in the woods, pointing flashlights toward a shallow pool of water that is filled with fallen leaves. In another, silhouettes of wood frog larvae stand out against green algae.
The Nature Conservancy hosts visitors for a vernal pool hike at Forest Pools Preserve, adjacent to Kings Gap State Park in Cumberland County, Pa. (Photos by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A flock of four tundra swans come in for a landing on a flooded farm field bordered by bare trees.
Tundra swans visit one of two restored wetlands on farmland owned by Mark Furr in Caroline County, Md. Funding for the projects came from Maryland's Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund with matching funds from Ducks Unlimited. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A gentian flower in bloom against a backdrop of rattlesnake master and other native plants.
Gentian and rattlesnake master bloom in the restored wetland at Widmyer Elementary School in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. (Photo courtesy of Kate Lehman)
A stream flows through a field full of white plastic tree tubes, with low forested mountains in the distance.
Tree tubes mark a recent planting that will mature into a riparian forest buffer along the edge of Goetchius Wetland Preserve, where it feeds into West Branch Owego Creek. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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