In 2008, DNR added a new site at Gunpowder Falls State Park Hammerman Area. Students have exhausted all of the possible planting areas at Rocky Point, but the plants there continue to thrive. The grasses have extended into the golf course coves and is producing seed pods throughout each consecutive year’s planting area. Annual aerial surveys taken by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) continue to map grass beds planted there by students in the bay grass program. These sites will continue to be monitored as well as other sites from previous years throughout the summer. If the grasses continue to do well, we will continue to expand the planting areas in the future. We appreciate all of your hard work this season growing your bay grasses, and hope to see you next year.

2008 Bay Grass Survival Chart

Location	Area Planted (m2)	Area still vegetated (m2)	Comments
St. Johns College Severn River (Anne Arundel County) site established 2004	10m2	8m2	Only redhead grass (Potamogeton perfoliatus) was planted at the site. The Living Shorelines project adds a new dimension to this bay grass restoration site. Plants were heavily fouled but still very green under the epiphytes.
	Redhead grass has grown to the surface in College Creek at the St. Johns site.
Gunpowder Falls State Park Hammerman Area (Baltimore County) site established 2008	55m2	50m2	Redhead grass (Potamogeton perfoliatus), water stargrass (Heteranthera dubia) and wild celery (Vallisneria americana) were planted at this site. Water clarity was excellent and most of the plants were more than 1 meter tall. Many of the plants had seed pods beginning to grow.
Seneca Creek State Park Clopper Lake (Montgomery County) site established 2003	28m2	10m2	Wild celery (Vallisneria americana) was planted at this site. Water clarity was good, but hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) was abundant throughout exclosure. Grasses continue to do well at this site, despite intense competition with hydrilla.
	Wild Celery competes with hydrilla in Clopper Lake.
Horn Point (Dorchester County) site established 2004	5m2	3m2	Only redhead grass (Potamogeton perfoliatus) was planted at the site.
North Bay (Cecil County) site established 2004	14m2	8m2	Sago pondweed (Stuckenia pectinata) and wild celery (Vallisneria americana) were planted at this site. Due to the severe wave action, the plants were located near the edge of the breakwater to afford some protection during storms.

For more information, contact Mark Lewandowski at 410-260-8634