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A citizens' group is willing to chip in $150,000 toward a $1 million land purchase that could double as a wildlife habitat ...
In what he called "likely the single most important thing I've done" Santa Rosa Commissioner rallies fellow board members to buy Gulf Breeze property ...
Seaside sparrows at Cooks Beach have their own “dialect.” Rowan University researchers monitor their songs as a way to track salt marsh health.
Other marsh grasses can change their root structures to tolerate different wet and dry sites. While hardy and fast-growing by nature, salt marshes are being drowned out by rising sea levels, with the ...
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire are using solar-powered tags to track salt marsh sparrows and collect data ...
The salt marshes that are vitally important in protecting shorelines from erosion are increasingly threatened with death by drowning, scientists say. Sea level rise and human activities such as ...
Salt marshes contain layers of decaying plant matter and possess a characteristic rotten egg smell. ... marsh grasses were harvested for hay or land was filled in for pasture and other uses. ...
Hopping said there is some urgency around restoring the salt marshes. “Models tell us by 2070, the salt marsh is going to be flipping," he explained. "Right now, 80% of this marsh is high marsh ...
Salt marshes are dynamic ecosystems; a little fluctuation is normal, Hodges said. But Carr started to notice changes that seemed a bit more permanent: The marsh grass retreated from the bank, then ...
Maine has almost 54,000 acres of salt marshes and sea grasses, or a quarter of the overall habitat in the northeast, and the most eel grass of any of the states surveyed in the EPA study, about 34 ...