In the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge more than 5,000 acres of marsh has already been lost. After battling nutria, an invasive rodent species only recently eradicated, the marsh is still declining at an alarming rate.
"If no action is taken, then the computer models that we have looked at tell us that virtually all the marshes in Blackwater and the surrounding areas of Dorchester County will be lost to erosion and sea level rise by the end of the century," Curson said.
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If the sea level is truly rising shouldn't we get more marsh, not less?
ReplyDeleteI agree with 10:40 how are we losing marsh? Losing it to what?
ReplyDeleteIs the sea level rising or is the shoreline eroding giving the appearance of rising sea levels?
ReplyDeleteIn Dorchester they save the environment with Sandy money. In Somerset Co. they save the Manokin/Fairmount sewer system. Wow, What a bunch of backwoods rubes.
ReplyDeleteJust like the beaches, the marshes don't go away...they just move to another area. The planet has been rearranging itself for eons. Mankind has little to no role in the changes, and has absolutely no control or influence in altering the forces of nature. That being said, we should adapt to the changing climate and geography and quit wasting money on trying to regulate, tax, and control, and stop with the attempts by national leaders around the world to gain global political power over the world populations.
ReplyDeleteIs there more water now than in the past?
ReplyDeleteIf so, from where did it come?
If there is a solution, then, to where shall the water be placed?
So many questions . . .
Like the marshlands were identical in the 1600s when we arrived here. C'mon. As water moves land, it turns into swamp, then marsh, then it disappears. The soil is either dispersed through the body of water or redeposited somewhere else, making new marsh, then swamp, then land. If that scares you, figure out a way to remove the moon and it's tidal influencing gravity.
ReplyDeleteShort of destroying shoreline through short sitedness, or rebuilding it in a futile attempt to defeat mother nature, there's little we can do about it. The changes are really only temporary, scaling time a little faster or a little slower.
but we MUST base our actions on what the computer models tell us - right? just keep putting those thermometers next to A/C exhausts on the blacktop to monitor GLOBAL WARMING - and I'm sure there is nothing in all those CHEMTRAILS that could be hurting the poor marshes...
ReplyDeleteBut huge developments like Ocean Pines constantly get the green light.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap you people are morons.
ReplyDeleteAs long as there are morons that believe in "chemtrails", you can convince them that all Mother Nature's changes are caused by man and charge them a tax for it.
ReplyDeleteAnd they will happily pay, LOL!