Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island. By the 1990s its land mass had dwindled down to a few acres.

Poplar Island is an environmental restoration project located in the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. The beneficial use project relies on dredged material collected from the approach channels to the Baltimore Harbor to restore lost remote island habitat within the Chesapeake Bay.

Dredged material is still received at Poplar Island which is a popular stopover site for migratory birds along the Mid-Atlantic flyway and provides a home to a wide variety of other wildlife.

Poplar Island has seen a vast change in its landscape over the last century. An island that in 1847 spanned more than 1,100 acres and was home to a population of 100 people was reduced to just about four acres of land in the 1990s. The cause? Erosion and sea-level rise in …

Poplar Island, like so many other islands in the Chesapeake Bay, was vanishing – steadily sinking into ever-rising water. By the 1990s, all that remained were a few wispy bars of sand, no more than five acres in all. Once, it had thrummed with life: a haven for British warships, a home to more than 100 people, a hideout for bootleggers and ...

It is estimated that in the mid-Chesapeake Bay region, over 10,500 acres of this unique habitat have been lost due to erosive forces in the last 150 years! Their decision is seen by most as a "win-win" solution. The remnants of the original Poplar Island consisted of clusters of low, marshy knolls and tidal mudflats.

The Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island, more commonly referred to as Poplar Island Restoration Project, began in 1998. The goal: to rebuild the island and restore wildlife habitat using clean sediment dredged from the …

2024年12月4日 · Poplar Island, part of Talbot County, Maryland, is due west of Tilghman Island. Poplar Island is one of many islands in the Chesapeake Bay and is similar to some of its better-known “cousins” to the south, like Smith and Tangier Islands. In the mid-to-late 1800s, Poplar Island’s landmass was at least 1,100 acres.

2012年12月7日 · With the help of USFWS experts, Poplar Island is able to provide a range of Bay species with the safe nesting habitat that only a protected, well-managed island can. Even sunken barges—placed here in the mid-1990s as “breakwaters” in an attempt to retain the island’s remnants—have become host to nesting ospreys and black-crowned night ...

Poplar Island, recently on the verge of disappearing, is today a national model for habitat restoration and the beneficial use of dredged material. Just off the Chesapeake Bay coastline, about 34...