Saltmarsh Landscapes

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Salt marsh landscapes

Sunset at West Creek in the Plum Island Estuary, Massachusetts

View from the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Rowley Field Station, Rowley, Massachusetts. Early September 2013

Cow Licks, Sweeney Creek, Ipswich, Massachusetts

The chapel. Photo courtesy of Danita Jo Photography

The Great Marsh in the Winter

A ditch in West Creek

West Creek

Spartina sheeting down a ditch wall

Springs of Spartina alterniflora poking through the ice

West Creek

A 35 mm mummichog found on the ice

The Parker River near Route 1

Parker River near Route 1

Parker River, note the hammer to indicate ice thickness

Haystacks on the marsh

Below are haystacks that are on display in Newbury, Massachusetts.  Salt hay was cut in the summer and stacked on staddles (cedar posts driven into the ground) and dried in the winter and collected.  Salt hay is still harvested in the area, but it is baled.  Hay stacks were used for at 300 years before tractors and hay-balers arrived.  You can read more about it in this blog post.

Traditional haystack in the salt marshes of Newbury, Massachusetts

Traditional haystack in the salt marshes of Newbury, Massachusetts

Traditional haystack in the salt marshes of Newbury, Massachusetts

Hay staddles in Newbury, Massachusetts

Hay staddles in Newbury, Massachusetts

Hay stacks in fall, Newbury, Massachusetts