Purpose and Goals of this Investigation
The purpose of this study was to establish a baseline ecological description of the system, document the dominant plant communities and utilize this information in the future to assess the restoration of the Sybil Creek tidal marshes. The description of existing plant communities will be important to allow for comparisons in determining the eventual success or failure of the restoration. Since vegetation can be used to evaluate growing conditions, the inventory will provide us with an estimate of the level of former disturbance site has been disturbed and the conditions necessary to restore the area to its pre-twentieth century condition - a cordgrass dominated tidal salt marsh.