Sea grass worldwide is in trouble. Losses are estimated at an area the size of a football field every half-hour.
Along the Atlantic, near the very tip of the DelMarVa Peninsula, scientists and conservationists have been working for a decade to restore one underwater sea grass that succumbed to disease and the hurricane of 1933.
When you hear “bay” you probably think of the Chesapeake Bay. But on the the Atlantic coast of Virginia's Eastern Shore there are tiny coastal bays between the barrier islands where there used to be thousands of acres of lush underwater meadows of eel grass.
Scientists thought they were extinct. Then in 1999 came a discovery. "For the first time in almost 70 years, someone found a small patch of eel grass just east of here behind the north end of Wreck Island," says Bo Lusk, a scientist with the Nature Conservancy who grew up on the Eastern Shore.
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3 comments:
This is a waste of money the grasses will come back with out these tax payer moochers. Think of all the hurricanes before 1933 and God always restores the grass. These people would take credit for the Sun coming up if they thought we were dumb enough to believe it!
It's great to see that the STEM programs are NOT a waste of time.
Kudos to these marine scientists. It helps all of us.
total waste of taxpayer$
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