Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations
A blackwater river from sea to source · By Dirk Frankenberg
Extensive salt marsh
Figure 5. Salt marsh behind Bear Island west of Bogue Inlet (Photograph by the author. More about the photograph)
Figure 5 is a view looking towards the mainland from the high dunes on Bear Island. It shows the extensive salt marsh that has developed on intertidal sands and mud west of Bogue Inlet. These are the marshes you could see in the right-hand background of figure 2. Note that these marshes extend for several miles in both directions. The productivity and habitat provided by marshes of this extent are an important contributor to the productivity of fisheries in North Carolina and other parts of the East Coast.
