“When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world . . . ” John Muir 1838 – 1914
Cold Calling an Expert I've been researching the marsh habitat and the salt marsh harvest mouse (SMHM) for years. I've worked in the marsh pulling out ice plants, cleaned the marsh, laid down in the marsh to look up to the sky to see what the mouse might see, and run on paths aside the marsh probably a thousand times.…
Marshes Were Smelly Dumps The marsh was the place that people dumped their garbage and construction debri. Just an ugly wasteland along the coast or inland. On a low tide, like the picture on the right, you would have seen garbage, tires and more, exposed. On a high tide, you could look out over a marsh and see all different…