Shared on Behalf of Rhode Island Sea Grant

Meredith Haas wrote the article on the Caitlin Chaffees’s Narrow River Tour for Rhode Island Sea Grant’s Coastweeks. “The problem, loss of salt marsh, is due to various factors including sea level rise, increased flooding, recreational boating that accelerates erosion along marsh banks, and increasing populations of marsh crabs that are consuming marsh grass and also increasing erosion rates.”

 

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