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asgardian--angels · 2 years ago

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I love you salt marshes. I love you mudflats and salt pannes, and all the shorebirds that probe for invertebrates beneath your surface, leaving tracks behind. I love you anoxic sulfur-metabolizing bacteria. I love you Spartina patens, and a thundering dark sky against your windswept plain. I love you fish nursery habitat and wave energy absorber. I love you saltmarsh sparrows, even as you lose a race against time, and I am grateful to have looked into your eyes and seen unrelenting resilience there, confident you won’t go down without a fight. I love you mummichogs, pushing the limits of salt tolerance. I love you Salicornia, like neon pink Christmas trees. I love you mosquito ditch lines, visible reminders etched into your skin of how we have mistreated you and must do better. I love you, sense of serenity standing alone in your rustling grasses as the tide comes in, for a moment imagining the world as it once was, when you covered the whole coast and kept both land and sea bountiful and safe from harm. I love you, enough to work to restore your honor and dignity. I love you, I love you, I love you, salt marsh.

#wetlands #nature #salt marshes #salt marsh #what we tagging these things as my friends #cause this could be a lot longer and i can do one for every type of wetland just watch #i have many feelings about salt marshes that cannot be encapsulated in a tungle text post #having worked in them for multiple jobs now.#i do get a gnawing feeling that makes me tear up a little when i think about these precious places we've mutilated so badly #mine #anyway dont mind my 3am feelings just go out and do something to help a salt marsh if you can #support conservation biologists like me who dedicate their lives to uphill battles #we have to teach the world or there will be nothing left to teach about.

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