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This page lists wetlands restoration publications available from WRP and other sources. Paper documents will be mailed upon request; digital documents are available via download and on compact disk. Please note digital file sizes. Large PDF files will load and navigate much faster by first downloading them to your computer and then opening them locally. To download files, right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac) and select the option to save the file to your computer.
Wetlands Restoration Plans and Coastal Tidal Restriction Atlases
Buzzards Bay Selected Inventory of Potential Wetland Restoration Sites, Phase I: Southern Area. Buzzards Bay Project (2004). View, download, or request a CD or paper copy at this BBP web page.
Buzzards Bay Tidal Restriction Atlas. Buzzards Bay Project (2002). View, download, or request a CD or paper copy at this BBP web page.
Cape Cod Tidal Restriction Atlas. Cape Cod Commission (2001). View or download at this CCC web page.
City of Gloucester Comprehensive River and Stream Habitat Restoration Report. Massachusetts Audubon Society. Contact the MAS North Shore office to request a copy 978-927-1122 / endicott@massaudubon.org.
Great Marsh Tidal Crossing Inventory and Assessment. Parker River Clean Water Association (1996 with 1997 addendum). Contact PRCWA for a hard copy 978-462-2551 / info@parker-river.org.
Maynard-Assabet Wetlands
Restoration Inventory Project. Epsilon Associates
(2001). Email
WRP to request a paper copy (limited supply).
Mount Hope Bay Tidal Restriction Atlas. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District (2003). Email WRP for a CD.
Neponset River Watershed
Wetlands Restoration Plan. WRP (2000). Email
WRP to request a paper copy (limited supply).
New Bedford Harbor Environment Wetlands Restoration Plan. WRP (2003). Email WRP for a CD.
Rumney Marshes ACEC Salt Marsh Restoration Plan. WRP (2002). This plan was produced in PDF and is broken up into several files to facilitate viewing. You can download a ZIP file (15 MB) containing all the pieces to view locally on your computer.
Shawsheen River Watershed Wetlands Restoration Plan. WRP (2002). Email WRP for a CD.
Once the ZIP file is downloaded, all files must be un-zipped into a single directory folder on your computer. Internal PDF document links will not work otherwise. Once un-zipped, open the file "cover.pdf" to view the plan. Click to download the ZIP file.
South Shore Tidal Restriction Atlas. Metropolitan Area Planning Council (2001). Contact MAPC for a hard copy 617-451-2770 x2052 / wclark@mapc.org.
Upper Blackstone River Watershed Wetlands Restoration Plan. WRP (2003). Email WRP for a CD.
Managing Common Reed (Phragmites australis) in
Massachusetts - an Introduction to the Species and
Control Techniques. (1998). Printed copies are no longer available. Click here to view a summary prepared by the author for the Massachusetts Audubon Society.