Since the early 1990’s we have worked cooperatively with VDOT to develop effective wetland creation and restoration strategies for their wetland impact mitigation programs.

Our work has focused on Coastal Plain forested wetland creation due to the large amount of impact to that resource, but our current project (Weanack) is focused on a tidal freshwater wetland site in Charles City County.  This work has been collaborative with Rich Whittecar at Old Dominion University and Jim Perry at the Virginia Inst. Of Marine Sciences. The VDOT research programs have been managed by Mike Fitch of the Virginia Transportation Research Council in Charlottesville.

Resources are listed below. Journal articles and proceedings papers are listed in our Publications Page

2000 VDOT-TRC Water Budget Study Report

2005 VDOT-TRC Mitigation Site Study Report

Mike Schmidt (2002), Litter Decomposition in Created and Adjacent Forested Wetlands of the
Coastal Plain of Virginia (Thesis)

Cara Bergschneider (2005), Determining an Appropriate Organic Matter Loading Rate for a Created Coastal Plain Forested Wetland (Thesis)

Gabriela Fajardo (2006), Physical and Chemical Soil Properties of Ten Virginia Department of
Transportation (VDOT) Mitigation Wetlands (Thesis)

Cummings, Angela R. (1999) An Analysis of Palustrine Mitigation Wetlands in the Virginia Coastal Plain (Thesis)

Hydric Soil Landscapes of Virginia

Hydric Soil Reconstruction for Mitigation Sites

Wetland Water Budgeting Procedures

Litter Decomposition in Mitigation Wetlands  

Effects of Organic Matter Additions on Mitigation Site Soils

Mitigation Site Soil Properties Across Ten Sites

Constructing a Tidal Freshwater Wetland ­ Photographs