There are chalk cliffs at Thanet at the North Foreland and again between Dover and Deal, but farther south is the low-lying area of Romney Marsh, which has emerged from the sea, in part by reclamation, since Roman times.
After the repeat catastrophic fire event, the burn scar transitioned to standing water and marsh, which has started to show minimal vegetation growth, but no Atlantic white cedar regrowth.
The reintroduction project has involved work with farmers to create flower-rich meadows in Dungeness and Romney Marsh which have also boosted the numbers of other threatened bumblebees.
American scientists have recommended a somewhat similar silt diversion program: opening Mississippi River levees south of New Orleans to allow sediment-rich water to flow over the region's marshes, which have been starved of silt since levee-building began in the region hundreds of years ago.
"It's a lot," she said, enough to cover 60 square miles half an inch deep every year, an amount that would slow or even reverse land loss in the state's marshes, which have shrunk by about a quarter, more than 1,500 square miles, since the 1930's.
The lions are members of the Marsh pride, which has featured on the BBC's long-running Big Cat Diary series.
I'm writing a series of books, the Marsh Road Mysteries, which has been praised for its diversity.
Much of this activity was part of a fierce personal and professional rivalry between two men, Othniel Marsh, and Edward Cope, which has become known as the Bone Wars.
Results showed that alpine wetland landscape was characteristic of marsh wetlands, which had the biggest patch number and the largest area.
This fauna has recently been severely affected by anthropogenic disturbances (Minckley and Marsh 2009), which have dramatically altered community structure.
Apart from that, he lent everything we asked of him," said Marsh of the exhibition, David Bowie Is, which has become the most successful ever staged by the London museum.
