New Hampshire Marsh Monitors: Evaluating Change in Our Salt Marshes

Between 1995 and 2005, New Hampshire partners implemented 32 salt marsh restoration projects, which focused on removal of tidal restrictions, removal of fill, and creation of additional open water habitat. Fifteen years later, the NHDES Coastal Program returned to five marsh sites in the summer of 2022 to collect data on vegetation, porewater salinity, and nekton. Understanding how these unique wetlands respond to human modifications and sea level rise is an important objective of the Coastal Program.

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New NHDES Program Helps Citizen Scientists

A recent increase in interest in air quality monitoring by citizen scientists combined with the introduction of low-cost sensors in the private market has led to an exciting time for hyper-local data gathering. The NHDES Air Resources Division has begun a new program to help encourage these efforts while simultaneously ensuring that the data collected is accurate.

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Native Brook Trout Protection Restores McQuesten Brook

After being listed as an "impaired water" in 2010 and eight years of restoration efforts, trout population surveys conducted on McQuesten Brook in Manchester, N.H., reveal that trout size and population density have increased and are similar to those found in pristine northern New Hampshire streams.

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