Mapping Fringing Marshes along the Casco Bay Coastline
Small wetlands make up a
significant portion of Casco Bay’s wetland resource, and they
constitute critical links between larger wetlands, reducing isolation
of wetland habitat. But, many “fringing” marshes are too small to be
included in national wetlands inventories. To better understand wetland
distribution in Casco Bay, CBEP funded the first comprehensive effort
to identify and map fringing marshes along the Bay’s shoreline. The
project increased the total area of wetlands mapped along the Casco Bay
coast by approximately ten percent.
