Salt marshes will vanish in less than a century if seas keep rising and California keeps building, study finds, according to this Los Angeles Times article.
This fascinating Los Angeles Times article about the imperiled wetlands of California (complete with time lapse modeling) summarizes the tough spot so many of our Southern California wetlands find themselves in. Hemmed in on one side by immovable infrastructure like buildings and roads and on the other by increasingly higher and higher levels of sea level rise, the future of our wetlands is uncertain. Here in Long Beach we are about to start the next phase of comprehensive restoration planning for Los Cerritos Wetlands. Issues like how best to plan for sea level rise and how best to protect existing not-going-anywhere-infrastructure will make this planning exercise particularly challenging.
There will be a workshop on March 28th in Seal Beach to kick off the next phase of comprehensive planning for Los Cerritos Wetlands. Look for future emails from me with the details and in the meantime check out the Los Angeles Times article about the challenges facing California’s wetlands.
Also I encourage you to check out details of the planning work that has been accomplished to date for Los Cerritos Wetlands.