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Mount Holly Riparian Forest Buffer Projects
Project I
Location:
Rancocas Creek, North Branch
Mill Dam / Iron Works Park, Pine Street,
Mount Holly, NJ
Date Planted:
March/May 1999
Land Use:
Municipal Park
Buffer Composition:
650 native trees and shrubs - 55 species (containerized and balled-and-burlapped)
1,000 native herbaceous plants - 30 species (plugs, gallon- and quart-sized
containers)and 13 species (seeds)
Buffer Size:
900 feet X 100 feet (average)
 March,
1999 - Before Planting
June,
1999 - During the First Growing Season
Design Components
- Riparian forest buffer
- Wetland creation
- Herbaceous beds along buffer's edge
- Recreation trail
September,
1999 - After the First Growing Season
Dominant Native Plant Species:
Listed in descending order of frequency of occurrence
Trees - Overstory
Sycamore - Platanus occidentalis
River birch - Betula nigra
White ash - Fraxinus americana
Swamp white oak - Quercus bicolor
Green ash - Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Trees - Understory
Smooth alder - Alnus serrulata
Gray birch - Betula populifolia
Flowering dogwood - Cornus florida
Sweetbay magnolia - Magnolia virginiana
Black gum - Nyssa sylvatica
Red cedar - Juniperus virginiana
Shrubs
Silky dogwood - Cornus amomum
Buttonbush - Cephalanthus occidentalis
Winterberry - Ilex verticillata
Swamp rose - Rosa paulustris
Elderberry - Sambucus canadensis
Arrowwood - Viburnum dentatum
Student
Volunteers
Organizations:
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Burlington County Soil Conservation
Rancocas Conservancy
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Participants:
Rancocas Valley Regional High School
Boy Scouts of America
Mount Holly Public Works Department
Members of the Mount Holly area community
Wetland
Creation - Before and After
Funding
United States Environmental Protection Agency 319h Grant Program and New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection
Project
I - After Two Growing Seasons
Go to Mount Holly Riparian Forest Buffer Project
II
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