Year 6
– Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management

Action Goal 1: Ensure longevity of conservation efforts

Strategy

• Monitor & Document:
  • Bank stability
  • Invasive regrowth
  • Tree survival
• Bat and bird activity observations (citizen science encouraged)
• Selective infill planting
• Update maintenance plan for next 5 years

Action Goal 2: Evaluate Previous Work

Strategy

• Native plant survival
• Bank quality
• Water Quality
• Bat count (citizen science encouraged) – and perhaps other counts
• Pollinator garden / bee count
• Meander-core wetlands

Action Goal 3: Apply Regenerative Practices

Strategy, Year 5 – Evaluate full transformation

• Repeat full soil sampling
• Compare to control plot
• Evaluate: organic matter, microbial indicators, structure (aggregation)

Action Goal 4: Maintenance & Stewardship Strategy

Strategy

• Invasive checks: 2× per year
  • Invasive removal
• Meadow mowing (if applicable): 1× annually (late winter)
• Tree care: Mulching, watering first 2–3 years
• Stream access points only—no general bank trampling
• Volunteer stewardship days to build long‑term success

 Action Goal 5:  Build volunteer base 

Strategy

• Community engagement:
  • 4 Educational Events / Site walks
    • The Greenspace in Winter
    • The Greenspace in Spring
    • The Greenspace in Summer
    • The Greenspace in Fall

• Nurture contact list – newsletter, social events
• Signage
• Volunteer workdays

Action Goal 6: Secure funding

Strategy

• Always reapply for Lexington Stormwater Quality Grant (2031 - May 1, 2030 deadline)
• Document list of potential grant sources and deadlines
  • Lexington Stormwater Quality Grant (Priority)
  • NRCS (eligible only for EQIP)
  • CAIP (eligible due to farm #)
  • FCCD educational grant

✅ Administrative Deliverables:

Monitoring report

Update Stewardship Plan