firmenich: restoration on a highly industrial site

Blaine Rothauser, GZAEcologist, straight up cool guy

Firmenich, Inc. Flavors and Perfumes

Diamondback terrapin nesting habitat

Native grasses and forbs

Newark Bay

Diamondback terrapin nesting habitat

Firmenich is here to manufacture fragrances and flavorings

We plant 250 native shrubs and 580 native herbaceous plugs. We hammer in nest boxes, install pollinator houses, construct mounds of brush for local and migrating wildlife, and create nesting habitat for northern diamondback terrapin, an at-risk turtle species.

Restoration 101:Save the good stuff, rip out the bad stuff, plant more good stuff

Restoration 101:Repeat.

Know the ecology

Phragmito

Newark Bay-o

Cottonwood-o

Spartino

If you build it, They will come!

This is a lined lagoon. Habitat?

Chicks just born on my site in Keasbey, NJ

(apparently they don’t read the papers that it is an industrial site)

Green ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, planted 2014

Even one tree makes a difference

“Don’t let perfection get in the way of excellence”

by David Wheeler

Wildlife returns to the industrial Newark Bay waterfrontNovember 1st, 2016

Under the sweltering September sun, our team discovers the earth at our fingertips. We ready the manure, topsoil, and mulch, wield the pickax and trowel, and labor the wheelbarrow through the trees and up the slope of a tidal berm.

Thank you. Now get out of here, I

mean it.