Lionfish: Beautiful, but Deadly, Invaders
Lionfish are strikingly gorgeous tropical reef fish, striped pink, red, silver and black with graceful frills decorating their fins. But...
The Day of the…Sargassum Weed?
In the classic 1951 sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids, made into a 1962 film, a strange meteor shower renders everyone who watches it...
Secretive Marsh Birds
It’s a good thing birders are able to identify species that they hear, but can't locate. Coastal birds whose home is in the salt marsh...
Periwinkle Snails
The white shells of the marsh periwinkle snail, Littoraria irrorata, are hard to miss on marsh sediments in winter and on the stems of...
Salt Marsh Grass is One Tough Plant
The great flats of salt marshes, green in summer, golden in fall, are an impressive feature of the Georgia coast. Two-thirds to...
Marshes of Glynn
Not many landscapes have had a famous poem dedicated to them. One such, of course, are the Golden Isles of the Georgia coast: sea islands...
Mossy Oaks
As I wrote in 'Marsh Mud and Mummichogs', the best-loved coastal tree is the live oak, Quercus virginiana. The low spreading branches,...
