Salt marshes provide nursery grounds, storm and flooding protections, and filter polluted runoff. This group will work to coordinate research, management, and restoration.

Mission: Multiple agencies and organizations with differing missions and mandates work efficiently and collaboratively towards the goal of preserving coastal wetland throughout Rhode Island.

History: The Salt Marsh Restoration, Assessment, and Monitoring Program is formalizing a decades-long cooperation between multiple federal, state, local, non-profit, and academic agencies to restore, assess, and monitor salt marshes throughout Rhode Island.

Key Materials

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