Salt marshes are divided into zones determined by how often they are submerged at high tide. A great egret feeds on small fish trapped in a salt marsh panne at Parsons Beach in Kennebunk, Maine.

Some parts of the marsh (the mud flats and other low-lying areas) flood twice each day, while others (the higher, grassier areas) are only occasionally truly flooded, during the highest tides and ...

Accessible in just a few minutes by boat from Marsala in Sicily, this small, flat island surrounded by salt flats and ancient ...

But salt marshes, which are coastal wetlands flooded and drained by salt water from the tides, can shield buildings and homes. “When Hurricane Sandy hit, if we didn’t have salt marshes there, a lot of ...

As salt-tolerant plants — smooth cordgrass, saltmarsh hay, saltgrass, black rush — begin to grow, their dense stems and roots trap more sediment, and the marsh builds more rapidly, up and out.

The saltmarsh sparrow’s existence depends on the coastal marshes found from Virginia to Maine. Their decline reveals an ecosystem on the brink. Bri Benvenuti, a technician with the U.S. Fish and ...

Low marshes flood once a day, with the coming of the daily high tide. The salt marsh ecosystem is not stagnant. It grows, shrinks, moves and evolves with the changing climate.

Salt marshes are divided into zones determined by how often they are submerged at high tide. A great egret feeds on small fish trapped in a salt marsh panne at Parsons Beach in Kennebunk, Maine.

These tides flood the salt marshes, bringing new life to one of my favorite features of a salt marsh, the salt pannes. This is also one of the best times to visit a marsh by kayak or canoe.