DARTMOUTH The Allens Pond salt marsh is drowning, says ecologist Danielle Perry.
In her tall waterproof boots, she stands atop an old stone wall transecting the marsh s western edge and points to two sizeable pools of water, naturally demarcated by the tan marsh cordgrass.
On the other side of the stone wall in some parts visually distinct with a lighter, windswept marsh grass water pools, too. Saltmarsh hay (which likes drier conditions) has slowly migrated upland into the bushy brush to escape the water line creeping up higher and more frequently.
Years ago, cordgrass would have jutted through the pool s water line. But today, some areas are bare: muddy flats at low tide and pools of water at high tide. Perry says with more frequent inundation due to accelerated sea level rise, some cordgrass has died off.
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“I am honoured and humbled. I love the team environment,” MacLachlan told iPolitics, adding how fortunate he and his colleagues were to have learned so much from former colleague Tracey Hubley. Hubley, who died last March, had been Summa’s president since 2005.
MacLachlan first joined Summa as a consultant in 2009 after spending nearly 18 months at the Rideau Institute on International Affairs. He first started working on the Hill as a constituency assistant to former NDP leader Ed Broadbent before moving to the office of the late Paul Dewar, where he was a legislative and communications assistant.