There is this idea that fire on marshes is good, to a point. Until now fire has been used as a management tool, but if you think about it, fire is also the natural reset for many ecosystems. It prevents some ecosystems from falling to the forests and maintains a praire system. However, little is still known about how fire really effects estuaries and the trophic cycles that are present there. There is a team at Blackwater that is spearheading survey to find out if fire has an actual effect, not new growth or nutrient loading, but to see fire effects vertical accretion, and other stuff stuff.
