A digital painting from an original photograph taken in 2019. Lowcountry Salt Marsh at sunset. These marshes, which formed about 12,000 years ago, are the breadbasket of the Atlantic. The salt marshes are filled with green and gold spartina grass that is the host to shrimp, oysters, crabs, red drum fish, along with wading birds like egrets, herons, and ibises. In fact, Spartina Grass is four times more productive than cultivated corn. The salt marshes are irreplaceable nurseries for some 80% of all seafood species along with being storm protection and pollution filtration. Georgia’s coastal marshlands encompass approximately 368,000 acres. You can help protect and preserve the east coast Salt Marshes by donating to the Ossabaw island Foundation

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