Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt ...

Alia Al-Haj strides down the half-kilometer boardwalk, a wagon full of power tools and PVC pipes in tow. Off to each side, a marsh stretches into the distance, the wet ground punctuated by tall sedges ...

Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt marshes that line our coastline — estuaries, where rivers meet the sea.