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Marine life returning to Green Harbor River

By Jennette Barnes

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 18, 2011

Humans have controlled the flow of Marshfield’s Green Harbor River for centuries. In the 1800s, at the behest of farmers who wanted more grazing land, a dike was built to limit how much tidal water flowed upstream into the river. It was the beginning of a slow loss of habitat as the river’s salt and oxygen dropped, but now, plant and animal species that sharply declined or disappeared are returning.

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