Guánica hydroseeding, 2014

Ridges to Reefs/Protectores de Cuencas/NOAA RC

Sturm, Paul

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)

NOAA Restoration Center

Protectores de Cuencas

Ridges to Reefs

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)

NOAA Restoration Center

Protectores de Cuencas

Ridges to Reefs

2014

Ridge to Reefs and Protectores de Cuencas have defined a set of methods to stabilize bare soils on high mountain and dry coastal sites in Puerto Rico. These methods are applicable to other sites across the Caribbean and likely into the tropical areas of the Pacific. Our efforts began with NFWF funded hydroseeding/hydromulching efforts that included a Soil Stabilization Roundtable in Puerto Rico which involved technical partners/experts from Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico, US Fish and Wildlife Service, NC State University, NOAA Restoration Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and a Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture Agricultural Extension Service from the high mountain areas of the Guánica watershed. Through the NFWF funded project we were able to test hydroseeding/mulching methods on slopes between 70 and 90% and refine suggested techniques. The Fiscal Year 2012 (FY12) funds were used to expand and begin to implement these methods on a larger and broader scale and to diversify the types of sites which included two farm sites and one commercial site. The Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) funds were used to complete the acreage on the Finca La Paz site, the Hardware Store site as well as to do test plots on two burn sites using primarily native species as well as rye grass to initiate immediate stabilization. As the FY2013 project was a continuation of the FY2012 project, we have presented some of the same information and photos for the two sites initiated in FY12. We have also provided a summary and a table of achievements using FY2013 funds and highlighted in bold some of the additional lessons and items gleaned using the FY2013 funds"--Background.

Conservation

Coral reef conservation

Pollution

Prevention

Soil conservation

Soil stabilization

Water

Water quality management

Watershed management

Watersheds

Wetland planting

Puerto Rico

CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)

Restoration

Professional Paper

Ridge to Reefs and Protectores de Cuencas have defined a set of methods to stabilize bare soils on high mountain and dry coastal sites in Puerto Rico. These methods are applicable to other sites across the Caribbean and likely into the tropical areas of the Pacific. Our efforts began with NFWF funded hydroseeding/hydromulching efforts that included a Soil Stabilization Roundtable in Puerto Rico which involved technical partners/experts from Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico, US Fish and Wildlife Service, NC State University, NOAA Restoration Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and a Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture Agricultural Extension Service from the high mountain areas of the Guánica watershed. Through the NFWF funded project we were able to test hydroseeding/mulching methods on slopes between 70 and 90% and refine suggested techniques. The Fiscal Year 2012 (FY12) funds were used to expand and begin to implement these methods on a larger and broader scale and to diversify the types of sites which included two farm sites and one commercial site. The Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) funds were used to complete the acreage on the Finca La Paz site, the Hardware Store site as well as to do test plots on two burn sites using primarily native species as well as rye grass to initiate immediate stabilization. As the FY2013 project was a continuation of the FY2012 project, we have presented some of the same information and photos for the two sites initiated in FY12. We have also provided a summary and a table of achievements using FY2013 funds and highlighted in bold some of the additional lessons and items gleaned using the FY2013 funds"--Background.

2014

CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)

Restoration

Library

Public Domain

1858

https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/10195