October 19, 2022

“Annalee Tweitmann stood ankle-deep in mud, hands wet with mud, peering at a steep riverbank of mud.”

“Mud comes with the job, she said, and she’s fine with that. Because mud is where the mussels are.”

“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. 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. It’s part of a pilot project to see if mussels could help hold that collapsing marsh together.”

Read the complete article here.