The Trustees are pleased to be a part of the Great Marsh Coalition. With more than 20,000 acres stretching from Cape Ann to New Hampshire, the Great Marsh is the largest salt marsh in New England. Its vast landscape provides critical habitat for threatened species of flora and fauna and serves as an important source of climate resiliency for the region by capturing carbon and absorbing excess storm runoff.
Together, the group of organizations and agencies that banded together in 2000 to form the Great Marsh Coalition work to protect the marsh and surrounding watersheds and increase public awareness of its place as “a coastal treasure in our backyard.”
The coalition includes: Eight Towns and the Great Marsh, Essex National Heritage Area, Greenbelt, Ipswich River Watershed Association, Massachusetts Audubon Society, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, Parker River Clean Water Association, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island Long Term Ecological Research project/MBL, and The Trustees.
Learn more at: https://www.greatmarsh.org