Restored native salt-marsh plants can pioneer healing where industry destroyed land

Evidence

But, in presettlement times, there were salt springs around the lake, and they supported one of the rarest of native plant communities, an inland salt marsh. … To witness the regenerative power of the land tells us that there is resilience here, signs of possibility that arise from partnership between the plants and the people. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1229