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Aimee Weldon, coordinator with the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with a team to conserve and restore saltmarsh habitat for the Saltmarsh Sparrow whose steadily declining population has been described as the canaries in the coal mines for saltmarsh ecosystems. Weldon explains how she and her colleagues, along with a large number of partners, are working to restore the saltmarsh for wildlife and human coastline populations living between Virginia and Maine and whose health depends on a stable marsh ecology.
Although the interview does not refer specifically to Mattituck Inlet, Mattituck Creek is designated as a Significant Coastal Fish and Wildlife Habitat by the New York State Department of State in part because it is one of few or rare undeveloped tidal wetlands in eastern Suffolk County with a deepwater inlet and strong tidal flushing tributary to Long Island Sound (NYSDOS, 2005). (WPKN, March 1, 2023)
