Restoration of Tidal Flow to Salt Marshes: The New Hampshire Experience

Although it has a short coastline, New Hampshire contains two regionally significant estuaries that support tourism, commerce, and industry. Most of New Hampshire’s salt marsh area is located in a back barrier estuary (Hampton-Seabrook) that has experienced extensive development for tourism over the past century. Our other significant estuary is a drowned river valley called the Great Bay Estuary. Great Bay is less developed and has tidal marshes fringing an extensive series of linked bays and rivers. Along the coastline between our two major estuaries are small marsh-dominated systems landward of barrier beaches. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.