A Marsh Transformed: Historical Ecology and Landscape Change in Suisun Marsh

A Marsh Transformed: Historical Ecology and Landscape Change in Suisun Marsh is a report for managers to inform landscape-scale, collaborative adaptation planning in the Suisun Marsh. Using historical documents such as archival maps, photographs, and narrative accounts, SFEI pieced together a complete picture of landscape conditions in Suisun Marsh in the early 1800s, before European-American colonizers began to transform the land.

A Marsh Transformed provides the historical and present-day context that can form the foundation of science-based conservation goals for Suisun. SFEI has undertaken similar efforts in San Francisco Bay and the Delta that led to collaborative regional goals for those ecosystems. SFEI’s aim is for the next stage of work in Suisun to use the content of A Marsh Transformed to run a collaborative process with resource managers, landowners, marsh visitors, and Tribes to crystallize goals for Suisun.