As the short days and long nights deepen, I’m thinking about next summer and how great it will feel to bring more plants out to our floating wetlands — let’s go! #floatingwetlands #plants #summer 🌿
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End of season reveal on the pontoon style floating wetland that local practitioners innovated at a workshop last spring… These structures spent the season in our temporary ponds so that we could monitor them closely — and they turned out to be one of our top performing designs! 🌿🌰 #floatingwetlands
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How about natural floating wetlands in the pools formed by woody structure in streams? #processbasedrestoration #floatingwetlands
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It may have ended abruptly, but it was quite a growing season! Does anyone have favorite birdhouse gourd curing methods to suggest? How do you like to cure them, and what do you like about your method(s)? #birdhousegourd #gourd #floatingwetlands #gardening 🌿
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Amazing to watch middle school students create a floating wetland out of willow cuttings. The weaving starts off orderly and then gets beautifully chaotic! Nature at her finest is messy #floatingwetlands #outdooreducation
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There has been so much mystery around how to get wetland emergent plants to stay in woven floating wetlands, sitting among the weave. Today an “ahah” moment: these larger-rooted sedges were SO easy to put in place. We just need to grow bigger plants! 💡 #lessonslearned #floatingwetlands 🌿🌰
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So glad this person asked! I’ve been wanting to visit this floating wetland to see how it’s doing, and the update request helped me carve out time. I had no idea how amazing it would be! Wow! 🌿🌰 #floatingwetlands #nativeplants
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We’ve decided to make our existing floating wetlands bigger on one of our projects, to increase the surface area where biofilm can form on the underside of the structures. 🌿🌰 #weaving #floatingwetlands
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We needed a buoy made from natural materials and birdhouse gourds work great! The question is, how long will they float? If you have either a guess or any experience with floating them, leave a comment! #floatingwetlands #birdhousegourd 🌿🌰
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We set out to create an alternative to coconut coir vegetated logs, used widely in stream restoration. But, we may have also created a new floating wetland design! #floatingwetlands 🌿🌰
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There’s a lot to be learned by closely observing the different floating wetland designs that our community came up with this spring. #floatingwetlands #elderberry #birdhousegourds 🌿🌰
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This scratches an itch that is hard to scratch as an adult in a constantly changing world. At the same time, it’s also creating something that is good for fish, frogs, birds, insects, turtles, and the water itself #floatingwetlands 🌿🌰
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It really looks like there’s a dragon in the high tunnel! This plant sits at the intersection of agriculture and ecological restoration. Natural floating wetlands need something to help keep them afloat, and the hollow birdhouse gourds seem to be doing this job! #floatingwetlands #birdhousegourds 🌿🌰
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A few moments from today’s live — weaving live willow into an existing floating wetland. #floatingwetlands #willow 🌿🌰
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This is what I mean by “Floating wetlands have an aesthetic component.” In addition to all of their functional purposes, they are beautiful. #floatingwetlands #ecologicalrestoration 🌿🌰
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This was the first woven willow wetland we deployed, made by high school students and community members, and it’s floating and growing exactly as we hoped! Even the willow it’s made from is growing. 🌿 #floatingwetlands #ecologicalrestoration #willow
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Sometimes frogs show up in your floating wetlands and sometimes they show up in garbage cans full of compost! We decided to give them some better habitat #frog #floatingwetlands #habitat
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The strategy behind where to place a floating wetland, and whether you anchor it or let it float freely — depending on what you want it to do in the aquatic ecosystem #floatingwetlands #willow #rooting
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Future birdhouse gourds that will help floating wetlands float! 🙌 #floatingwetlands #birdhousegourd #gourd
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Launching a floating wetland is the culmination of a lot of planning, preparation, and collaboration. This was among the first woven willow structures of this project and we have learned a lot in the process! youtube.com/shorts/tIWZR... #floatingwetlands #habitat
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Working with willow and water makes for endless possible living structures! Thank you Digital Deb for this one @naturalradical #floatingwetlands #willow #basketweaving
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When you create a magical fairyland of plants growing in water, you never know who might show up! #watergardens #plantpropagation #floatingwetlands
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Three month time lapse from preparing the ground and building temporary ponds to creating floating wetlands! #floatingwetlands #ecologicalrestoration
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Tomorrow is a big day for this woven floating wetland! It will find itself in a new home sweet home 🌿 #floatingwetlands #wetland 🌰
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A rare look underneath a living floating wetland! #floatingwetlands #roots #ecologicalrestoration
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The local wildlife species are loving these floating wetlands! #floatingwetlands #habitat #ecologicalrestoration
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The frogs have found the floating wetlands in the middle of the field. They know habitat when they see it I guess! (sound up) #floatingwetlands #frogs #ecologicalrestoration 🌿🌰
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A photo of one of the Birrarung Trial Floating Wetlands at Yarra's Edge in Melbourne, Australia. The floating wetlands are a series of artificial islands installed in the lower reaches of the Yarra River-Birrarung. This image was captured in March 2025, 27 months after the wetlands were first installed.
Please continue to watch over the wetlands and report your fauna sightings via iNaturalist. You never know what might turn up! 4/4
#FloatingWetlands #UrbanHabitat #UrbanWildlife #UrbanGreening
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A photo of one of the Birrarung Trial Floating Wetlands at Yarra's Edge in Melbourne, Australia. The floating wetlands are a series of artificial islands installed in the lower reaches of the Yarra River-Birrarung. This image was captured in May 2024, 17 months after the wetlands were first installed.
It has been such as joy to watch the wetlands grow and mature over the last 2.5 years and I can't wait to see what the data shows! 3/4
#FloatingWetlands #UrbanHabitat #UrbanWildlife #UrbanGreening
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A photo of one of the Birrarung Trial Floating Wetlands at Yarra's Edge in Melbourne, Australia. The floating wetlands are a series of artificial islands installed in the lower reaches of the Yarra River-Birrarung. This image was captured in July 2023, seven months after the wetlands were first installed.
As of today, I have completed 60 surveys at each of nine sites along the Yarra River-Birrarung, amounting to 180 hours of survey time and over 9,000 fauna records. 2/4
#FloatingWetlands #UrbanHabitat #UrbanWildlife #UrbanGreening
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