| Wedged between Great Bay
Boulevard and the Tuckerton Creek salt marsh is a rare maritime forest. It was once part
of an unbroken chain of maritime forests along New Jersey's coastline. Most maritime
forests were cut down for farmlands and homesteads by colonial settlers, and very little
of it exists today. The Tuckerton Seaport's maritime forest was once cut down for
farming, but it has grown back to its natural state over the past century. Many
species of plants and animals live here, partly because of the rich soil caused by clam
and oyster shells that were once used as fertilizer. |
