“[Runnels] are very shallow channels [we dig] to drain the pools that have rested on the marsh due to the effects of sea level rise,” explained Danielle Perry, coastal resilience program director with Mass Audubon, as she stood calf-deep in mud at Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary in Dartmouth this spring.
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