Coastal News Today | NC - Rising tides and drainage ditches threaten North Carolina's coastal freshwater wetlands
Greg Rubino drives his elongated spade, called a sharpshooter, into the decaying organic matter of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. He’s a wetland scientist with the North Carolina Division of Water Resources, and once he’s dug about a foot underground, past a mat of roots, he reaches into a bed of “real soil” and grabs a sample, crumbling it between his fingers.
Source: coastalnewstoday.com
