Projects and Research
Our restoration projects help to further our purpose for the conservation, management and restoration of the fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans. Our most recent project, the Chicken Creek restoration, is an exciting endeavor, and will benefit a variety of wildlife with over 280 acres of restored habitat, and will be a fantastic opportunity for visitors to see the real-time progression of a large-scale restoration project.
The refuge’s Rock Creek unit, located along Rock Creek and near Tonquin Road, is an important parcel as part of the larger Rock Creek Floodplain and surrounding forested areas. For the next 3-5 years, the site will undergo active restoration to return to a scrub-shrub wetland; a community of woody shrubs and emergent wetland plants that will be beneficial to a variety of...
The Chicken Creek restoration project is complete. The natural flow of the creek is back and flourishing on this beautiful landscape. The once meandering Chicken Creek was converted to a straight channel on what is now refuge lands, when the area was once utilized for agriculture. Though this shortened, half-mile straight channel was beneficial for farmland, it...