Marshes and Mangroves on the Move
The GTM Reserve protects the line between the mangroves to the south and the salt marshes to the north. As the climate warms and sea levels rise, that line is shifting.
Reserves Benefit Local Economies
National Estuarine Research Reserves are a positive influence on local economies, according to a new study which calculated the direct and indirect economic contribution of Reserves in Florida, Oregon, and New Hampshire.
Bringing built & natural shorelines together at GTM
Research at Florida’s Guana Tolomato Matanzas (GTM) Reserve is bringing living and built structures together to stabilize shorelines and help protect and sustain economically important habitats—as well as the communities that rely on them.
Learning Guana Cultural History
Ellen Leroy-Reed, director of the Friends of the GTM Reserve, shares her story of discovering more about the cultural history of the Guana Peninsula and the humbling work of building a GTM for All.
The Gullah-Geechee People and Folk Tales
Josephine Spearman, education coordinator at Florida’s GTM Reserve, honors the cultural history of the Gullah Geechee people in the Guana Peninsula—and in her own family history—through an educational folktale.
Talk NERRdy with Ellen Leroy-Reed
NERRA’s correspondent-at-large Nik Charov catches up with Ellen Leroy-Reed, director of the Friends of the GTM Reserve in Florida, on the magnetic pull of a mission-driven workplace and why biodiversity is about more than habitats.