Aquatic Transition
Biological production
Dominated by grasses
Significant degree
Not easily navigated on foot, an area of low-lying land on the York River is periodically flooded and typically remains waterlogged. Being near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, this marsh is brackish and experiences tidal fluctuations.
“A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” – Guy de Maupassant