Mangrove Pioneers

The right climatic and geographic conditions in the southeastern U.S. have allowed mangroves to migrate northward to Georgia.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Mangrove Pioneers.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and mangrove location data from Vervaeke, W.C., et al. (2025). Photos of mangroves in Georgia courtesy of William C. Vervaeke/NPS. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published March 31, 2025
Data acquired March 11, 2025