Spartina Salt Marshes

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/spartina.html

On 10/16/06, George Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Long Island, with salt marshes once all around it ("Drowned Meadow"
> became Port Jefferson, NY) in the Suffolk County Museum are
> waffle-like shoes one wore to harvest the "marsh grass" reportedly
> used as insulation in wooden frame houses (aghhh!) until the practice
> ceased. There is also today much "spartina patens" which according to
> research by Envirosphere, Inc., are starting to appear in the Pacific
> Northwest as an invading species.
>
> George Myers
>