Environmental Protection Agency Coastal wetlands stretch inland from estuaries and beaches. In temperate climates, they're salt marshes and grassy fresh marsh and tidal flats. The information on this buoy is divided into the three categories listed below. There's more to swamps and marshes than meets the eye. Red and black mangroves, Belize Thickets of mangrove roots are perfect nurseries for wild shrimp and fishes.
Few wetlands demonstrate dilemmas of development more starkly than Florida's Everglades.
In the past 50 years, pollution or water-flow disruption and complete drainage in some areas have disturbed or destroyed many habitats. Planting projects play a major role in saving Louisiana's coastline Vegetation helps hold the mud together and prevents it from washing away. Smooth cordgrass, a salt-tolerant plant, is widely used.