Hello! We are interested in learning about your relationship with Maryland's tidal salt marshes. Marshes for Tomorrow is an ambitious project led by Audubon Mid-Atlantic aimed at creating an implementation plan for tidal marsh restoration on a landscape scale in Maryland.
Maryland’s coastal marshes are undergoing dramatic rates of loss due to erosion and sea level rise, and scientists
predict that marsh erosion will accelerate and a great majority of our
marshes will disappear by the year 2100. Restoration practices will enable us to
maintain some of these marshes over the long term but it won’t be feasible to
keep all, or even most of, the marshes.
The Marshes for Tomorrow initiative will identify 25,000 acres of the
most resilient and best quality marsh on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and determine
which restoration actions will be needed to prevent their loss. As part of our plan, we recognize the essential input of communities living in or close to tidal salt marshes whose culture, livelihoods, identities, and resources are under threat from this marsh loss.
We invite you to participate in this project by completing the following marsh use survey. This survey is made up of 17 questions, many of which are optional, and we estimate it will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Participation in this survey is anonymous and your personal information will not be collected unless you choose to provide it. For your participation in this survey, we'd like to offer you the opportunity to enter a free raffle to win some local goodies. At the end of the survey, we provide space for you to share your contact information if you wish to learn more or want to enter the raffle for free.
For more information about this project, please visit our
webpage or
reach out via marshes4tomorrow@gmail.com.
