Pickering Creek Aerial View taken 2009
This is an aerial photo at Pickering Creek of the approximately 85 acres of freshwater wetlands Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage (CWH) designed and restored as of 2009 using the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), with additional funding from several other partners (CWH, Biophilia Foundation, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, TWF). These marshes have become a birding hotspot.
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This is the first wetland CWH did at Pickering.
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An Egret makes use of the shallow 14-acre wetland completed in August 2014.
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A typical landscape level wetland restoration under CWH’s Chesapeake Care Program
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The Pickering Creek wetlands have become an important part of the educational program.
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This elevated platform allows the occupants to get a better view of the restored wetland complex.