Little Lagoon living shoreline project

In November, a team working on behalf of the Alabama Trustee Implementation Group, and project partners, met along the shore of Little Lagoon in southwest Alabama with the goal of restoring part of its eroding shoreline. The Little Lagoon Living Shoreline Project was approved by trustees in their second restoration plan, and the team began installing native wetland plants. The team planted 500 new plants along a heavily eroded part of the southwest shore of the lagoon. Thousands more are on the way in the next few months. This new living shoreline is an important first line of defense that will help reduce erosion and maintain or improve the water quality. The project will apply living shoreline techniques to restore, at a minimum, 2,200 feet of heavily eroded area along the southwest corner and southern shore of Little Lagoon in the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Restoration will include a combination of evaluation, planning, and installing a living shoreline, consisting of biodegradable coconut fiber logs, plantings (Spartina alterniflora and Juncus roemerianus), wave attenuation structures and/or native mussel seeding. Stabilization of the shoreline will also reduce erosion of adjacent habitat supporting endangered Alabama beach mouse and help create more storm-resilient and biologically productive shoreline habitats. (Source: Gulf Spill Restoration 12/05/19) https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/2019/12/trustees-give-alabama-s-little-lagoon-new-living-shoreline?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery/