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Depression-era drainage ditches emerge as sleeping threat to Cape Cod salt marshes

Liza Lester Jan 24, 2013 One Comment

Healthy salt marsh, Cape Cod

Contemporary recreational fishing combines with old WPA project to hasten marsh die-off By Liza Lester, ESA communications officer   CAPE Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recreational areas. The erosion is a consequence of an [...]

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