On Tuesday, July 22, Mashomack Preserve hosted children ages 4-7 for the “Summer Seedlings in the Marsh.” The event was held ...

It is also an important regional nursery for California halibut and other species of marine and estuarine fish. The tour will encompass walking the 0.3-mile (0.6-mile round-trip) of the Estero ...

The mass of plants that comprise a salt marsh go through a life cycle, much as do the animals that live in it. That includes dying off. The grasses turn brown and decay over the winter.

Sea otters are making an impact as they return to the wetlands of Central California. Remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape as these adorable animals recolonize their former habitat in ...

Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt marshes that line our coastline — estuaries, where rivers meet the sea.

The high marsh only gets flooded twice a month during spring tides. This is where you will find cowlicks of the more delicate salt marsh hay (Spartina patens), beautiful tiny purple flowers of sea ...

Under good conditions, sediments deposited on the marsh floor allow it to rise in elevation, but Maher’s investigations since 2008 in salt marshes across Long Island show seas are rising too ...

Much of Boston used to be marshland like this, including the Back Bay, South Bay, Mill Pond and more. Those areas were filled in, and Belle Isle almost suffered the same fate in the 1980s.

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 ...

Low Salt Marsh Habitats Release More Carbon in Response to Warming, a New Study Finds This complicates their role as carbon sinks as temperatures, and the sea level rises. By Hannah Loss January 9 ...

This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘ The Current ‘. Sea otters are making an impact as they return to the wetlands of Central California. Remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape ...

Salt marshes are divided into zones determined by how often they are submerged at high tide. A great egret feeds on small fish trapped in a salt marsh panne at Parsons Beach in Kennebunk, Maine.