Enviroment

Enviroment

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Selection 10 - Life and Death of the Salt Marsh


The Marshes are such a beautiful thing, they are a ribbon of green, and dancing river of water. It creeps as far inland as the tides can go and as far as the eye can see. It has wonderful, clean, fresh smells of Spartina which is a fairly strong odor mixed from the elements of the sea and the grasses.  But as the truth comes out the marshes have been bothered, dug up, poisoned and polluted, and can have a smell of hydrogen sulfide which smells like rotten egg odor. 
The dangerous ways of marshes are from human activity not the natural processes, we destroy the wetlands and shallow waters by interrupting it.  We build things on it, dig it up, and we indirectly pollute it.  We need to do alot of planning and working to keep these wetlands healthy and clean. We do not need more pollution and destroying of the ecosystems than we already have done.

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