The Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program has approved DCR's Rare and Endangered Species Habitat Management plan for Fowl Meadow. Fowl Meadow, with its diverse wetland ecosystems and rare species habitat, is designated as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) and as 'Priority Habitat.' Because of its significant ecologic value, DCR needed an approved plan before it could conduct any sort of trail or habitat management activities.
FBH will be working with DCR to implement one aspect of the plan: mapping invasive species, such as phragmites australis. (See photo.) Phragmites and and other invasive plants threaten native wetland species found in Fowl Meadow and other wetland habitats in the Blue Hills.
To improve efforts to control these invasives, beginning this fall, we will train volunteers to identify invasive species and record their location using GPS units. If you’re interested in learning about invasive species and would like to help us launch our invasive mapping program, please let us know: info@FriendsoftheBlueHills.org.
FBH will be working with DCR to implement one aspect of the plan: mapping invasive species, such as phragmites australis. (See photo.) Phragmites and and other invasive plants threaten native wetland species found in Fowl Meadow and other wetland habitats in the Blue Hills.
To improve efforts to control these invasives, beginning this fall, we will train volunteers to identify invasive species and record their location using GPS units. If you’re interested in learning about invasive species and would like to help us launch our invasive mapping program, please let us know: info@FriendsoftheBlueHills.org.
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