A Place Between the Tides

This evening I intended Harry Thurston's talk on salt water marshes. Although I expected a "management approach" to maintaining salt water marshes, I learned of Harry's passion towards the natural beauty of this physical feature. I learned that marshes have great productivity. Salt water marshes act as buffers to the sea, absorb runoff, and filter pollution. Small marshes, like "Old Marsh" are a small fragment of habitat, but have a large influence on the ecosystem. Although salt marshes are cyclical in nature, many marshes are being destroyed due to human infrastructure, such as subdivisions, roads, and dams, as well as accelerated loss resulting from sea level rise.

"Nature is the mind precipitated."