Why read Life and Death of the Salt Marsh?

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"At low tide, the wind blowing across Spartina grass sounds like wind of the prairie. When the tide is in, the gentle music of moving water is added to the prairie rustle.... "One of nature's greatest gifts is the string of salt marshes that edges the East Coast from Newfoundland…

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Judith Weis

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One of nature's unappreciated great gifts is the salt marshes growing along the East Coast from Newfoundland to Florida–a ribbon of green growth, growing intertidally, part on solid land, part in moving water.

This book shows how these marshes develop and grow, what kinds of plants and animals inhabit them, and how they interact ecologically. It also demonstrates how important salt marshes are ecologically, what they do for us, and how we are destroying them. Another book with poetic writing by biologists.

"At low tide, the wind blowing across Spartina grass sounds like wind of the prairie. When the tide…

From Judith's list on The best books about the marine environment.