At the Linda Loring Nature Foundation, located on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, we promote environmental literacy through research, education, and stewardship empowering our community to develop a sense of place by deepening their connection to the natural world.   

To learn more about our research and conservation efforts on our 275 acre property, please check out llnf.org . 

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The Resilience Restoration Project is LLNF's proactive approach to climate change along our North Head of Long Pond bank. This project will revert this site from a developed landscape with non-native invasive species to a more resilient native biodiverse ecosystem.

The following are the proposed activities and what should be captured in the photos:

1.	Removal and management of invasive and non-native plant species while conserving any existing native vegetation.

2.	Removal of the existing structures and landscape features from the project area

3.	Native plant restoration via seeding and planting with appropriate native species to restore the targeted native plant communities. 

The project will be continually updated as it unfolds. For more information, please visit: www.llnf.org

Resilience Restoration Project

Thank you for participating in our community science project and visiting the Linda Loring Nature Foundation. This lookout area is the North Head of Long Pond, a brackish body of water with a slight tidal flow connected to the rest of Long Pond by a culvert under the Madaket Road. Surrounding most of this body of water is the rest of the LLNF property, which encompasses 275 acres of protected conservation space.

Your photos captured here will contribute to a time-lapse video that will serve as our baseline data to analyze long-term climate change trends. We can then compare these photos to our ongoing water quality research of the pond. Our pond research includes the chemistry of the water (pH, salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, etc.), water level meters, seine netting, vegetation surveys, wildlife surveys, and minnow trapping. We hope to better understand Long Pond’s tidal regime and its effects on the surrounding ecosystem.

For more information, please visit our website llnf.org 

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