"But it isn't just the species that are endangered; it's the habitat itself, this brackish tidal marsh, that is rare."
Sand was also deposited behind them into the brackish marshes, burying vegetation.
T. latifolia grows mostly in fresh water but also occurs in slightly brackish marshes.
It is a plant of freshwater and brackish marshes and other estuary habitat.
Moving inland, the next zone is the brackish marsh.
A brackish marsh may occur where a freshwater flow enters a salt marsh.
Salt grass also tolerates the higher salinity of the brackish marsh.
Much of the area is a transgressive brackish marsh.
In Louisiana it is common to see these large gar striking the surface in brackish marshes.