Join Maine Coast Heritage Fund’s Marsh Restoration Program Manager Tatia Bauer for a Salt Marsh Restoration Presentation and Q&A that focuses on an exciting five-year multifaceted restoration project on 132 acres of local salt marsh.

YLT is working with partners at the York River Stewardship Committee, Wells Reserve, Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, and Maine Coast Heritage Trust to conduct salt marsh restoration on approximately 132 acres of salt marsh across YLT and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) lands on the upper York River.

Agricultural ditches and embankments from the 1700s and 1800s have changed the water flow and water levels in marshes throughout coastal New England, including those in the York River estuary. These changes have affected marsh plant communities, created large pools on the marsh devoid of vegetation, and are ultimately preventing the marsh ecosystem from keeping pace with rising seas, threatening this critical habitat.

This project aims to restore tidal channel connections throughout the marshes. The field team will begin its restoration work in the marshes in the fall of 2026 and conclude in the winter of 2029, with pre- and post-restoration monitoring beginning in summer 2026 and continuing through late 2032.

This presentation is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register here. It will take place entirely indoors. You may join in-person in York Land Trust’s Community Room or virtually via Zoom.