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  • Feral Hogs Are Causing Irreversible Harm to Salt Marshes

    Feral Hogs Are Causing Irreversible Harm to Salt Marshes

    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 reasons to fear…