Insights
Tom Chase – April 10, 2024
Several summers ago I was wandering around my yard’s own microhabitat on Martha’s Vineyard Island, when I came upon a small but strikingly beautiful flower that I’d never seen before…
How to de-fragment the landscape
Habitat fragmentation poses one of the most difficult problems for communities adapting to climate change. Where the landscape is broken up by housing development, industry,
How to Un-Develop Land
Perhaps your community is like mine: years ago, sensing that the character of our landscape was being lost through development, conservation-minded citizens created a land
Submitted by Robert S. Young, PhD, PG and Katie Peek, PG – June 2022
It is important to understand that coastal salt marshes are dynamic systems. As sea level rises, marshes will erode or drown on the seaward margin, and they will expand landward on the upland margin…
