Southeast Regional Partnership
for Planning and Sustainability

What is SASMI?

The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative (SASMI) is a regional effort and voluntary, non-regulatory partnership that brings together leaders from the Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS) and other local, state and federal partners, communities and nongovernmental organizations to determine the greatest threats to the salt marsh ecosystem and opportunities to ensure its survival in the four-state region from North Carolina through Brevard County in east-central Florida. This coalition effort officially launched in May 2021, and since then SERPPAS and The Pew Charitable Trusts have brought together over 400 partners across the region.

SASMI’s goal is to enhance the long-term abundance, health and resilience of the approximately 1 million acres of salt marshes within the South Atlantic states to ensure no overall loss of the benefits these wetlands provide to fish, wildlife and people. SASMI’s pathway to the protection, restoration and migration of this great expanse of salt marsh is the SASMI Plan.

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Mission

SASMI's mission is to bring together partners and stakeholders to develop and implement the SASMI Plan to the benefit of people, communities, military installations, and fish and wildlife that depend on South Atlantic salt marshes.

SASMI Overview Film

This short film introduces the South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative and explains the importance of our mission to protect and restore salt marsh. Produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology