Connect to Protect
This effort relied on the New Hampshire Salt Marsh Plan’s resilience scores, along with a suite of other metrics, to identify regionally important conservation opportunities. They identified salt marshes with a high resilience score, along with any undeveloped buffer areas, as “resilient marsh areas” that should be prioritized when identifying conservation focus areas.
Marshes on the Move in Hampton
In an effort to protect local marshes for the future, the Seabrook Hampton Estuary Alliance worked with the Great Bay Reserve to use the New Hampshire Salt Marsh Plan to prioritize parcels for conservation in a data driven and easy to explain process.
