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Unique ID Number = 69

Tuisset Wildlife Refuge

Tuisset Wildlife Refuge - Ongoing

1997 orthophotography available from the RIGIS Orthophoto Server. Click image for printable PDF.
Courtesy: R.I. Department of Transportation

Project Location:  Kickemuit River

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Access Point(s):   Not documented for this site.

Public Use:  Not documented for this site.

Impacts:  Formerly hay fields, now multi-floral rose, black locus, and bittersweet are expanding into fields.

Project Size:   Not documented for this site.

Area Benefited:   Not documented for this site.

Restoration Description:  Coastal grassland winter use for northern harrier. Warm and cool season grasses are being planted (Indian grass, switch grass, big and little blue stem grasses). There is the potential for high quality habitat. First phase completed plantings along coast, 2.5 acre near tuisset road with a USFWS grant from the Partners in Flight program.

Restoration Date:   Not documented for this site.

Target Species:   bobolink, savannah sparrow, meadow lark

Historic Conditions:  Formerly hay fields, now multi-floral rose, black locus, and bittersweet are expanding into fields. rant with USFWS Partners in Flight Program, Plowing up sections and planting with native species, cutting black locust along hedge rows to turn several small fields into

Project Contact:

Partners: Audubon Society of RI, US Fish & Wildlife Service

Pre and Post Restoration Data: False, True

Monitoring:

Studies Conducted:  Butterflies

Cost of Project:  Not documented for this site

Public Property Owners:  n/a

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