From 2011 the island was part of a multi-year wetland restoration report by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, NOAA, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The project goal was to eradicate an invasive species of plant known as Phragmites.https://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/natural_resources/housatonic/deepwhammprogramreport20112012.pdf
