Environmental Concern
EC is committed to improving water quality and creating, restoring and conserving wetlands, living shorelines and other natural habitats through education and outreach, propagation of native plant species and professional design and installation.
Our Story
Wetland Restoration
Our Restoration Team specializes in both freshwater wetlands and tidal salt marshes. From start to finish - we plan, design, permit, construct, plant and monitor wetland projects.
About Restoration
Nursery
EC was one of the first non-profit organizations focused on growing native wetland plants for living shoreline projects in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. In addition, EC's nursery supplies native wetland and upland plants to the wholesale trade.
About Our Nursery
Outreach & Education
Promoting the stewardship of wetlands through community workshops, meaningful conservation initiatives and professional training.
About Outreach & Education

Restoring the Bay....one wetland at a time

Environmental Concern Inc. is a public non-profit committed to improving water quality and creating, restoring and conserving wetlands, living shorelines and other natural habitats through education and outreach, propagation of native plant species and professional design and installation.

 

Help us restore the Bay! Our founder pioneered the field of wetland restoration and over the last 50 years, we have restored over 50 miles of shoreline in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Support our work with a donation today! In addition to our direct restoration work, we teach professionals, the community and we champion meaningful conservation initiatives. Sign up for our latest news and events.

Rusch project shows shoreline before Ruesch project shows shoreline after restoration

We Hope You Dig This!

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Species available ($10/each):

  • Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed)
  • Baptisia tinctoria (yellow wild indigo)
  • Conoclinium coelestinum (purple mistflower)
  • Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower)
  • Eupatorium perfoliatum (boneset)
  • Helenium autumnale (yellow sneezeweed)
  • Helianthus angustifolius (swamp sunflower) – pictured
  • Liatris spicata (blazing star)
  • Mimulus ringens (monkeyflower)
  • Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot)
  • Muhlenbergia capillaris (pink muhly)
  • Penstemon digitalis (beardtongue)
  • Pycnanthemum muticum (mountain mint)
  • Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)
  • Scutellaria incana (hoary skullcap)
  • Solidago rugosa (goldenrod)
  • Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster)
  • Zizia aurea (golden Alexander)

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