Tweitmann searches a healthy section of marsh at Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary in Rowley, looking for ribbed mussels to transplant into the degraded marsh at Joppa Flats.
It’s part of a pilot project to see if mussels could help hold that collapsing marsh together. Her plan was to transplant some of them from this relatively healthy marsh to an unhealthy marsh a few miles away, which is eroding into the Merrimack River. Tweitmann, a coastal restoration ecologist with Mass Audubon, had come to a salt marsh in Rowley, Massachusetts, to hunt for a creature called the ribbed mussel. Mud comes with the job, she said, and she's fine with that.
(Robin Lubbock/WBUR)Īnnalee Tweitmann stood ankle deep in mud, hands wet with mud, peering at a steep riverbank of mud. Facebook Email Ecologist Annalee Tweitmann walks across the marsh at Rough Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary in Rowley, where she has collected around 50 ribbed mussels to transplant into the degraded marsh at Joppa Flats.
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