| A new, 500-space parking lot is hidden amid grassy dunes on which saltgrass is growing in durable composition material. |
| Schmitt is co-owner of Saltgrass Lodge, a three-story, eight-room, antebellum-style lodge. |
| Characteristic plant species include succulent shrubs such as iodine bush and bush seepweed, as well as salt tolerant grasses such as alkali sacaton and saltgrass. |
| Rising water is remapping the marshes, too, creating open water as areas gradually become too deep for cordgrass, saltgrass and other salt-tolerant vegetation. |
| Native poppies, fescues, and saltgrass, among others, dance in the breeze, and the added insulation value keeps her heating costs low. |
| Inland saltgrass is a native, perennial, warm-season, sod-forming short grass with vigorous, creeping, scaly underground stems. |
