As snow falls steadily, Steve Glass leads a visitor across rutted marshland to two 250-foot radio transmission towers â?? one built in 1973, and its newly installed replacement.
“This is not the way a marsh should look,” says Glass, the Arboretum’s land-care manager. “This looks like a plowed cornfield.”
What will it take, he’s asked, for this section of marsh, in the UW Arboretum’s southeast corner just off Martin Street, to recover? “A long, long time,” he answers.