Summary - Selection 10

Life and Death of the Salt Marsh by John Teal and Mildred Teal

The Teals are expressing a simple beauty and necessity of salt marshes along North America's eastern coast. Aside from being a natural phenomenon, they hoard wildlife, natural filters, and help out in times of trouble. Their prime example in the disastrous change in salt marshes would be the significant change in odour. From a faint scent to rotten egg stink, we are exposed to an indicator that pollution and industrial expansion are heavily effecting our salt marshes. Population pressure, roads, and public access are all part of the destruction of salt marshes. People need to have knowledge of the benefits that salt marshes have for us, or else their safety from corporations that sucker towns into allowing increased development will be lost. The Teals believe that there needs to be a lot of planning in preserving salt marshes in their entirety, and enforcing safeguards in the protection against the pressures of an increasing population.