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(More customer reviews)Four decades ago, John and Mildred Teal published their seminal study of tidal wetlands, Life and Death of the Salt Marsh (1969). They noted: "Marshes are generally considered useless land that must be made useful as quickly as possible. 'Useful,' of course, means destruction of the marsh in most cases and conversion of the area to ground on which people can stand, and water on which they can float boats." Weis and Butler's book describes the unfortunate results of this traditional view. It also discusses the impact of the recent consensus that salt marshes (the authors' "favorite places for many years") are valuable habitats, worth preserving and restoring.
The book's chapters are divided into salt marshes' natural history (1. ecology, 2. plants, and, 3. animals), and their "unnatural" history -- the impact of humans (4. physical alterations, 5. pollution, 6. introduction of non-indigenous species, 7. restoration and management), closing with a case study of the "Death and Rebirth" of northeastern New Jersey's Hackensack Meadowlands. The book is a worthy successor to the Teals' classic work. It is accessible to the general reader, and would be a valuable resource for any college- or graduate-level course dealing with Ecology, Environmental History, or Urban Studies
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