Coleman Photostation - south end of Brucker Marsh - changes to Panicum Fen

Top figure is a photograph taken by Wendy Blake-Coleman in 1976. The left side of the photograph corresponds with the southern end of an glacial outwash ridge with trees, shrubs and a coastal grassland dominated by Panicum virgatum. To the right of the Panicum is the eroded edge - the edge likely formed in the early 1960's (Gross 1966) and in this photograph it appears that the seaward edge of the eroded edge has been colonized by salt marsh grasses. Above or south of the eroded edge - there appears to be a spit of marsh that originates from the western shore of Barn Island (proper). There is a spit to the right that corresponds to marshland to the immediate west of the mouth of Brucker Creek. Note also the Cedar at the far left of the photograph - not how the branches angle upwards.

Bottom figure is taken at ~same location and both spits to the south are present but not as conspicuous as in the Coleman photograph. The Cedar with upward branching on the left has died but the one beyond is still green. Focus on the bay formed by the spits to the south of the marsh - more open water is visit in the 2015 photograph as the Panicum fen has retreated to the left and has been replaced by salt marsh vegetation. The open water along the rightmost edge of the Panicum fen is part of the eroded edge that formed in 2008.