Article 5S466 Feral Hogs Are Causing Irreversible Harm to Salt Marshes

Feral Hogs Are Causing Irreversible Harm to Salt Marshes

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Brian Kahn
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New research shows that feral hogs are hungry wrecking balls in the Southeast's salt marshes. Their appetite for mussels could end up undoing a key symbiotic relation that keeps marshland intact, right at a time when coastal ecosystems are coming under increasing pressure from climate change. As if we needed any more...

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