NBS Guidance

Working With Nature: A Guide to Native Plants for New York’s Great Lakes Shorelines

About This Guide

Widrig, R. 2021. Working With Nature: A Guide to Native Plants for New York’s Great Lakes Shorelines. Oswego, NY: New York Sea Grant.

Working With Nature: A Guide to Native Plants for New York’s Great Lakes Shorelines provides information on how to use native plants to reestablish “natural, stable shoreline slopes and transition zones from lake to upland areas” (2) for New York’s Great Lakes shorelines. The guide provides specific information on planting and design considerations for different shoreline projects, such as shoreline terracing, beaches and dunes, bluffs, wetlands, and others.