After a "Big Plant" of 400 mixed
species saplings to enhance the successional forest around the watershed on the
Ghost Nets site, each tree had to be watered by hand to conserve water during
the summer droughts. The trees were installed in a former rail road bed, previously
used by the quarrying indisutry, when the entire site had been strip mined for
the industry. The site is regularly scoured by winter winds off the Atlantic.
Only ten per cent of the saplings survived
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