Needs and opportunties for environmental restoration in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary
Will RJ and Couch S. 2003. Needs and opportunties for environmental restoration in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary. US Army Corps of Engineers. New York, NY
Prior to 1990, the principal estuary agenda of environmental advocates and governmental resources agencies was to acquire unspoiled natural habitats that were not in the public domain and to protect natural habitats in the public domain or under public regulation, such as wetlands, from being destroyed or degraded by developmental uses. But over the last 10 years, environmental restoration preservation has become a major component of virtually everyone's strategy for preserving this regions estuarine resources. Geologic and ecological complexity underly the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, which is in fact, a meeting place of several estuaries. What particularly characterizes the HRE is that its estuary resources are centered in five core habitat clusters. These have been islanded by surrounding urban development so dense as to sever any meaningful land habitat connection among and between the habitat clusters. The five core habitat clusters are, south to north: Raritan Bay; The Arthur Kill; Jamaica Bay; East River/Western Long Island Sound; Hackensack Meadows.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Will, Robert; Couch, Stephen
- Date of Issue
- 2003-12
- Publisher
- US Army Corps of Engineers
- Units
- GATE
- Keywords
- Ecosystem Restoration, estuary mitigation, Hudson-Raritan Estuary