Selection10: Life and Death of the Salt marsh

Marshes, green ribbon of salty, soft and low lying lands. The latter found along the eastern coast of North America. These healthy salt marshes offer so many pleasable benefits and unusual perceptions to all visitors.  Pleasable music, clean, fresh smells. However, these marshes are no longer healthy and undisturbed. Human activities in the first place poisoned these salt marshes, suffocating trash and large cities waste into them. They suffer by smelling as hydrogen sulphide. Marshes differ in the north and south. In the north, the SPARTINA PATERS marsh is covered with dense grass. In the southern marshes, on the other hand, only one grass covers the whole marsh area, it is the SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA.  Humans have been putting a lot of efforts into destroying these marshes. This is by polluting shallow water bottoms in wetlands, and the coast which will result in frail marsh estuarine system pollution. The preservation of marshes is not only for the sake of marshes and people who venture onto the surface, but also for the benefit to all humanity who fishes from these waters along the coast and consumes its fish. In order to preserve these marshes, we have to take into account that some destruction is not avoidable.  For this matter national planning with a classification of the significance of every marsh along the coast is necessary. Preservation should also include safeguards against the increase of pressure from population, and also state officials.