PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 24, 2022
January’s completion of the Cousins River Fields and Marsh project in Yarmouth, a $2.19 million effort that was years in the making, exemplifies the desirability of protecting Maine’s tidal wetlands. Maine has about 30,000 acres of salt marsh, including vast expanses of salt-tolerant grasses such as those found in Scarborough Marsh and the 11 divisions of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge strung between Kittery and Cape Elizabeth. Public access to the Cousins River salt marsh will begin later this year. To explore an estuary in the meantime, find another protected place where lifestyles are defined by saltwater ebb and flow. ~ Scott Richardson, Berwick