Chequesset Neck Road dike in Wellfleet, Mass.

A road crossing water in a coastal area
Photo By/Credit
Bridget Macdonald/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
03/31/2023
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Since 1909, a dike has separated the Herring River, a nearly 900-acre estuary in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, from natural tidal flow.
Ecosystem
Coastal
Wetland
Subject tags
Coastal restoration
Floods
Salt marshes