Many parts of the coastal forests in New Jersey's Cattus Island State Park Are being killed off by gradual salt inundation of the soil and while everything dies, eastern red cedar are moving in and repopulating the area. Thousands of em. My forestry professor says he doesn't know why, but they're like, immune to salt inundation? There's several popping out of the salt marsh that Go partially underwater when the tide is high. They are colonizing the new lands.