This story was originally published by Biographic and is republished here by permission.
Point Reyes sits at the western edge of Marin County, California, a pick-axe shaped peninsula that juts between the pounding waves of the Pacific. It’s a landscape of stark beauty; a patchwork of windswept headlands, broad leeward bays, wildflower-strewn meadows, and dripping evergreen forest. State and federal agencies list more than a hundred plant and animal species within the park as threatened or endangered, among them the California red-legged frog (
Rana draytonii), western snowy plover (
Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus), and coho salmon (
Oncorhynchus kisutch). This natural richness draws around 2 million visitors a year.
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April 11, 2021
Center for the Inland Bay Science Technician Zachary Garmoe switches out a long-term water quality monitoring device called a sonde at the center’s monitoring stations on Indian River. SUBMITTED PHOTO
The public is invited to join the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays’ upcoming Citizens Advisory Committee - Citizens Café Thursday, April 15, to learn about the state of coastal Delaware’s wetlands and water quality.
The meeting will be held on Zoom starting at 6 p.m. Pre-registration is required. To sign up, go to inlandbays.org/events/citizens-advisory-committee/.
The Inland Bays watershed is home to a variety of wetlands, which are ecosystems that are seasonally or permanently wet and characterized by specific vegetation and soils. They are commonly found along waterways such as rivers or creeks, but can also be found farther inland within coastal forests. Wetlands play critical roles in providing habitat for many coastal species, but also offer