CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — The view from the observation deck over a meadow of brown marsh grasses would make a nice postcard. Eagles roost on tall pines, muskrats burrow in mounds of mud and straw, and black ducks splash in a pond.
But on a cold and drizzly day, Matt Whitbeck surveys the landscape with concern.
Beyond the marsh is what the Fish and Wildlife Service biologist calls “Lake Blackwater.”
“It’s this beautiful body of open water,” he says. “When you really start to think about why this is here, it’s disturbing.”
The area was once an uninterrupted prairie of aquatic grasses. But waters have risen more than a foot over the past century, drowning the native plants and converting nearly eight square miles of marsh into open water.
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12 comments:
Why did FEMA reduce your flood zone by 50%?
Gov't models = LIES.
When the ice melts in my glass, the glass doesn't overflow. Why is that?
If most of the ice is in the caps and is floating, why do sea-levels rise. Very confusing phenomena.
Gotta call Al Gore and ask him to explain.
Total load of BS and waste of tax payers $--this is natural erosion
Seriously, are there any conservative climatologists that read this blog that can chime in??
What is the correlation to climate change and sea levels? Most of the global ice IS floating, isn't it? Please help us stupid conservatives understand. And not with flawed logic... a truly, scientifically proven theory, not just a WAG.
Please hurry before the ice in my glass causes my drink to overflow onto my desk.
Nasa documented temperature increasing on earth and mars! Gess we need to put better emissions on the mars Rover.
What were water levels when Blackwater was created as a refuge?
Let's try apples to apples. Erosion has been part of both wet and dry landmasses since the dawn of time.
Why is sea level "rising" at Blackwater but not in Cambridge?
what goes up must come down. get real; Cyclical, Cyclical, Cyclical.
Haven't we been told for years that the nutria were responsible for destroying the marsh and creating areas of open water? Which is the truth? Sounds like the climate liars are at it again!
No one can control mother nature. Man made global warming is a hoax.
It's the worms. Worms eat soil and over the years there is less of it. Soon, we will all drown and become soil and the Earth will be saved.
love it when some bureaucrat tells us how stupid we are and the critical need for us to give them anything they want to fix the problem. NOT!
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