by Ryan Walsh | Feb 29, 2024 | From The Marsh, News |
Welcome back to the marsh! The James River Association is excited to announce that our Living Shoreline Cost-Share Program has been extended through the end of the year. What is a living shoreline? Living shorelines are nature-based solutions to erosion and work to...
by Ryan Walsh | Mar 8, 2023 | From The Marsh, News |
Welcome to Lower James, where the water is chilly and the wind is blowing! There are many ducks that grace the river in flocks and rafts during the colder moths. Today we will be investigating some of the wonderful water fowl that call our watershed home in the...
by Ryan Walsh | Feb 14, 2022 | From The Marsh, News |
Welcome back to the Marsh! It’s a rainy winter’s day in the marsh and although there is life teeming around us, not much is active at the moment and many organisms are taking it easy until the spring. Today we are going to investigate a hammock out in the marsh. No,...
by Ryan Walsh | Jan 12, 2022 | From The Marsh, News |
Welcome back to the marsh! Today, we are exploring one of the most important organisms that call these places home, oysters! The Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is a bivalve in the mollusc phylum. Oysters are one of the most commercially important species in...
by Ryan Walsh | Dec 8, 2021 | From The Marsh, News |
Welcome back to the marsh! Today, we will be talking about an interesting plant that inhabits salt marshes and can be eaten. Saltwort, Salicornia virginica, is a flowering, succulent plant in the Amaranth family that can be found along the upper reaches of tidal...
