SNOW HILL — If you’re interested in protecting marshland then the Lower Shore Land Trust wants to hear from you.

The tri-county nonprofit is joining with Marshes for Tomorrow and its ambitious project to identify, protect and restore at least 25,000 acres of the most important tidal salt marsh habitat in Maryland for Saltmarsh Sparrows (Ammodramus caudacutus) and strengthen resiliency along coastal communities.

Maryland’s coastal marshes are undergoing dramatic rates of loss due to erosion with alarm that great majority of local marshes will disappear over the next 75 years.

Restoration practices will benefit some of these marshes over the long term but it won’t be feasible to keep them all or even most.

Identifying the most critical acreage will lead to restoration plans being drafted to prevent their loss — and community input is being sought.

Meetings are scheduled 4:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 at the Delmarva Discover Museum in Pocomoke City and 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at the Princess Anne Library.

Additional dates are 5:30 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Berlin Library and 2 p.m. Jan. 27 at the Harriett Tubman Museum in Cambridge.

Anyone interested in participating or even if you cannot attend the Lower Shore Land Trust has a 17-question survey posted here which if desired will enter you into a raffle. For more information about the marsh project email marshes4tomorrow@gmail.com.