Remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape as these adorable animals recolonize their former habitat in the Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in Monterey County.

A citizens' group is willing to chip in $150,000 toward a $1 million land purchase that could double as a wildlife habitat ...

Salt marshes along the entire West Coast could disappear by 2110, ... The study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, examines 14 major estuaries along the West Coast, ...

The study found that, at one point, salt marshes covered roughly 2,800 square miles of the West Coast. That's an area larger than the state of Delaware. But today, that number has been reduced by ...

Salt marsh resilience compromised by crabs along tidal creek edges. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 19, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 08 / 210809144027.htm ...

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.

A salt marsh in recovery is gobbling carbon, gaining ground. ... it was estuary — the brackish, marshy area where rivers meet the sea. In 2012, after working with tribes, ...

Restoration of estuaries may take various forms such as revegetating salt marsh, mangrove, and seagrass habitats, repopulating shellfish beds, removing contaminated bottom sediments and hardened ...

Salt marshes often go by another name: estuary. The brackish waters where rivers meet the sea were celebrated this past weekend through the #iheartestuaries social media campaign.

“Crabs eat salt marsh roots, burrow into salt marsh sediments, and over time can cause a marsh to erode and collapse. This had been happening at Elkhorn Slough for decades until sea otters recolonized ...