Reef balls and oyster shells were used to create 1.02 miles of oyster reef off the coast of Coffee Island, in Portersville Bay, Alabama. These reefs reduced erosion, enhanced biodiversity, created jobs and improved local fisheries. This also created 20 acres of seagrass and marsh habitat, further protecting the shoreline. 

The Alabama DOT considered a nature-based solution for a bridge replacement and highway realignment project across Mobile Bay, AL. The plan involved using a continuous rock revetment from the edge of the pavement down to the existing bay bottom, complemented by a nature-based solution consisting of stone breakwaters and planted marsh in front of the revetment.

Sandstone glades of the Southern Cumberland Plateau are rare and unique plant communities exhibiting some of the richest endemic floras in the eastern United States. As a part of larger conservation initiative to rehabilitate and reconnect glade patches with the surrounding forest ecosystem, USFS at William B. Bankhead National Forest conduct a pilot project on a 3-acre glade.

The Nature Conservancy constructed two demonstration living shorelines projects in the Fowl River in Theodore, Alabama. These living shorelines were constructed on private properties with failing bulkheads and erosion problems. This project retrofitted the existing bulkheads with tiered gabion baskets filled with native marsh plants and dredged material.   

This project will restore 2,200 feet of eroding, degrading shoreline in the Little Lagoon area of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. The living shoreline will be comprised of of plantings of smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) and black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus), wave attenuation structures, and native mussel seeding. 

Marsh Island is a state-owned island in the Portersville Bay portion of Mississippi Sound, Alabama. This project will restore 50 acres of salt marsh at Marsh Island to prevent erosion and rebuild habitat. The site will include a permeable breakwater, added sediment, and added native marsh plantings.  

This project will test the oyster recruitment and growth ability of different types of cultch material in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Oyster density and growth has declined in Mobile Bay due to damage from hurricanes and increases in oyster drill populations. This project will restore reef and help inform future restoration project materials. 

This project installed a living shoreline to protect shorelines in Portersville Bay near Point aux Pins in Mobile County, Alabama. The shoreline will use natural and/or artificial breakwater materials to absorb wave energy, reduce shoreline erosion, provide habitat, and increase benthic productivity.

Swift Tract is owned by the state of Alabama and managed by the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Oyster reef breakwaters were constructed in this area of rapidly eroding shoreline to slow erosion, enhance oyster settlement and overall biodiversity, and create local jobs.