Salinity Tolerance of Common Reed (Phragmites australis) at the Medouie Creek Restoration Site, Nantucket MA

Abstract

I n 2008, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) initiated a salt marsh restoration project at the Medouie Creek Wetland Complex, Nantucket, Massachusetts. This involved installing a box culvert under a restrictive dike road to reconnect tidal, saltwater hydrology throughout the marsh, in which the restricted portion had converted to freshwater conditions sometime in the 1930s.