North Simpson Habitat Restoration Project

The North Simpson Habitat Restoration Project aimed to improve the riprarian habitat on the floodplains of a near-perennial riparian area that came into existence since the 1970s as a consequence of municipal effluent discharge. Numerous native tree, shrub, grass, and forb species were planted in shallow water-harvesting basin to facilitate self-sustaining recovery. Arid-land techniques including seedling with pelletized native clay and imprinting the soil were not effective at this site. To date, the work at the Simpson site has seen thousands of plants established via miles of irrigation line installed, but the hundreds of acres seeded have shown little result.