When I came to live in Mount Washington in the 1990s, I was introduced to the Taconic Plateau and the town of Mount Washington as one of “Earth’s Last Great Places,” a Nature Conservancy (TNC) program that measured and recognized ecological health biodiversity being a prime indicator.
A chorus of songbirds serenaded our group while we strolled through a corridor of shadbush, their white blossoms gleaming against an azure sky.
We could hear waves washing against rocks, and soon gaze.
Once reviled as mucky, mosquito-infested blights, salt marshes often were drained or filled in to curb the spread of disease and to make room for more people.
Today, coastal wetlands are preserved as .
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