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Barn Island Wildlife Management Area
• 67 years of research and monitoring • Designated as 1 of 33 LIS Stewardship Sites
• Main justification is historic research • 1st Stewardship site to receive funding for management planning • DEEP contracts with the Connecticut College Arboretum for
compilation of information: Glenn Dreyer, Chad Jones, Scott Warren & Ron Rozsa
• LIS Sentinel Monitoring Strategic Plan identifies the use of Stewardship Sites for monitoring as a priority.
Contributors: Scott Warren, Chris Elphick, and Ron Rozsa
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Barn Island WMA
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Named Features
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Names Features (cont.)
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Wequetequock Cove Marsh
• Research – none? • Potential educators marsh • Coelopleurum lucida
beach
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Wequetequock Point
• Unditched high marsh • OMWM • Marsh point – SET • Microrelief plot – 1998
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Palmer Neck Marsh
• Photostation (1947, 1976, 2014) • Vegetation map (1932, 1951, 1976) – Blake-
Coleman • Marine transgression transects • Conn College – 1983 elevation/vegetation
transect • Designated in the 1974 management plan
as the area for public school educators to bring classes
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Photostations
1947 1976
2013
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Photostations/Forest Transgression
photostations Forest transgression
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Vegetation Map - 1976
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Headquarters Marsh
• Hoop toss (1947, 1976, 1988)
• SET (mid-marsh) • Microrelief plot • Photostations (1947,
1976, 2014) • Vegetation map
(1976) • Marine transgression
transect • ConnColl transect • Marsh sparrow nest
counts – veg. plots (2002 - 2014)
12 14 13
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1947 versus 1988
“the present mosaic may be thought as a momentary expression, different in the past, destined to be different in the future, … as would be a photograph of moving clouds” Miller & Egler
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Vegetation Map - 1934
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HQ Marsh – Photostation 12
1947 1976
2014
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HQ – Photostation 13 (1953)