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Pepper Buster and Johnny Mangrove Seed
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NOAA Restoration Center
Community-Based Restoration Program
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Pepper Buster and Johnny Mangrove Seed
Pepper Buster and Johnny Mangrove Seed
The Brazilian Pepper Plant, an imported exotic, competes with Florida mangroves for habitat. The Restoration Center, within NMFS' Office of Habitat Conservation, awarded funds to the Marine Resources Council of East Florida to coordinate pepper busters and mangrove replanting activities, to restore and maintain a mile of shoreline in four counties during 1996-97. In addition, the funds supported the development of pepper busters training materials for distribution to other volunteer groups throughout Florida.
Pepper Buster and Johnny Mangrove Seed
Pepper Buster and Johnny Mangrove Seed
Restoration
A woman volunteer cuts air potato from a tree during a restoration project atIndian River Lagoon to remove Brazilian Peppers from native mangrove habitat.
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Volunteers from a local high school cut Brazilian Pepper bushes at their basesand then spray a spot application of herbicide. Brazilian Pepper is anintroduced species that outcompetes the native mangroves.
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Volunteers remove Brazilian Pepper bushes from native mangrove habitat.
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A local school group poses after the removal effort. Volunteers cut BrazilianPepper bushes from native mangrove habitat and then the County Roadworksuses a chipper to chip the bushes and dispose of the brush.
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Volunteers at Indian River Lagoon. The lagoon is in the background and the imageshows how the mangrove canopy is being choked out by Brazilian Pepper.
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A volunteer removes Brazilian Pepper growth from mangrove habitat along theIndian River Lagoon.
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Indian River Lagoon is in the background of this image. The lagoon is one ofthe largest lagoons on the east coast of Florida and is prime habitat for Snookand Tarpon. The lagoon waters are estuarine. This image shows Brazilian Pepperstumps to the rig
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A rest area set up with snacks for the volunteers.
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Student volunteers cut Brazilian Pepper growth from native mangrove habitatalong Indian River Lagoon.
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Student volunteers cut Brazilian Pepper growth from native mangrove habitatalong Indian River Lagoon.
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Student volunteers cut Brazilian Pepper growth from native mangrove habitatalong Indian River Lagoon.
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The Indian River Lagoon provides prime estuarine habitat for native mangrovespecies.
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Mangroves unimpeded by Brazilian Pepper bushes.
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Brazilian Pepper bushes are an ornamental from Brazil that looks like Holly.They produce red berries that birds eat. The birds carry their seeds spreadingthe plant throughout mangrove habitat where the Pepper bush outcompetes themangroves. The red be
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This area has been cleared of Brazilian Pepper to help the mangroves recolonizeat the waterline.
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This image shows the big stumps of the Brazilian Peppers that have been cut tomake way for mangroves. Brazilian Pepper bushes can reach twenty feet in height.During the restoration, bushes as big as 9 in diameter were cleared to providehabitat for ma
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A school teacher shows her students mangrove propagules. The students collectedpropagules and replanted them at the water's edge after the Brazilian Peppershad been removed.
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The shoreline at Indian River Lagoon.
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Volunteers collect mangrove propagules to replant after clearing BrazilianPeppers from mangrove habitats.
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Volunteers plant mangrove propagules at the shoreline of Indian River Lagoon.
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