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“The Magical Salt Marshes” is my 1st blog!

I thought, I would like to share with everyone the incredible re-energizing power of the magical salt marshes.

I’m the Californian who married the Connecticut Yankee and is who is presently living in Westbrook, CT an incredible little picturesque burg near the beach er… shore in Middlesex County.

My backyard opens out into a wide expanse of woodland and my magical salt marshes. Where everyday or really every hour, something unexpected is happening. A real wonder to behold. The ever changing weather, the great variety of wildlife, flora, fauna and a quiet sense of peace and contentment.

Life started in this salty soup and created an easy way for our tiktaalik acanthostega forefathers to tentatively crawl out of the water for their first breaths of air. To exist in both environments and pave the way for us all.

I feel so very deeply connected with it’s vibrancy, rhythm and continuing power.

So first let me explain simply what a salt marsh is. Salt marshes are passage ways between land and the low and high salt water tides of the oceans. They are one the most biologically productive habitats on the planet, rivaling the rain forest. Salt marshes use sun, salt and decomposed stuff to produce extremely fertile biodiversive living habitats which provides expansive/extensive food chains. Everything from bacteria to mammals turn to it for life providing nourishment. It also serves as a great buffer against severe weather and storms.

Unfortunately, in the past, salt marshes have been treated as “wastelands”, but with the passing of the Clean Water Act of 1977 salt marshes are coming back from their extremely bad treatment, and are not only persevering but thriving. Native cord-grass, and switch grass, are returning, and with them the salt marsh and seaside sparrow, king rail, marsh wren, migratory ducks and shortnose sturgeon. The fiddler and marsh crab, Atlantic ribbed mussel, northern diamondback terrapin, along with the meadow vole, raccoon and fisher all use the magical salt marshes to feed, forage, breed, nest and rest.

It’s an epoch life and death cycle, feeding legions for eons and never dying in return.

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