Habitat Restoration & Protection Database

This site was formerly a farm thought to have been in cultivation from a period of colonial settlement on Long Island. Suffolk County Department of Parks and Recreation purchased the property in the early 1980's and the land lay fallow until 1998, only being used for passive recreation and fishing access with no site improvement or management other than mowing of access trails. The site had become colonized with successional shrub and weed species, several of which were invasive species, like the multiflora roase, Rosa multiflora. The underlaying soil profile was consistent with other maritime grassland areas on Long Island, making this site suitable candidate for grassland restoration. The rarity of coastal grasslands makes this a particularly valuable opportunity.