New York City volunteers planted 20,000 marsh seedlings on a dying salt marsh in 2003, but 80% of the site was healthy just two years later | World News
PC: National Park Service In 2003, a restoration effort at New York City’s Big Egg Marsh took a major step when National Park Service scientists and 100 volunteers planted 20,000 smooth cordgrass seedlings across an area that had been raised with clean sand. The work was part of an experiment to restore a salt marsh…