Sentences with phrase «high tide line»

The second is that more than two million people and one million homes sit within four feet of the local high tide line.

This marine protected area is bounded by the mean high tide line, and straight lines connecting the following points in the order listed: [3]

Our signature home is an was designed by Los Angeles Poirier Designs, built at the edge of the legal high tide line (50 yards) and directly next door to the exclusive, Pranamar yoga resort.

Projected flooding at Kennedy International Airport in New York if water levels were to reach 10 feet above the current high tide line.

Five pairs of quadrats were established along the length of each beach, with each pair comprising one quadrat above the high tide line and one 2 m below the vegetation line (Fig. 2).

Field data back this up: The closest boulder to the shoreline at this peninsular shore, known as Annagh Head, is a 4.3 - meter - long behemoth weighing about 48 tons that lies 115 meters inland from the high tide line.

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

«About 7 to 8 million people in the U.S. live within 6 feet of the local high tide line, and storm surge can extend flooding far beyond the high tide line, as witnessed in Superstorm Sandy,» the report states.

Scientists were able to excavate an area just below the high tide line on Calvert Island, which has «layer cake - like archaeological sites,» McClaren said in a press release.

The fossil was on a beach like that, 10 or 15 feet away from cliff, right at the high tide line.

Habitat: Ideal Snowy Plover habitat consists primarily of coastal beaches, sand bars, sand dunes, and river - mouths, above the high tide line.

The ideal habitat for Western snowy plovers consists primarily of coastal beaches, sandbars, sand dunes, and river - mouths, above the high tide line — making Ocean Beach and Crissy Field prime real estate for overwintering and finding their food source (small insects and beach invertebrates).

The nearest town is still about 20 miles from these beaches, so a local hotel can not provide the experience of waking up 10 feet from the high tide line.

The population breeds above the high tide line on coastal beaches, sand spits, dune - backed beaches, sparsely - vegetated dunes, beaches at creek and river mouths, and salt pans at lagoons and estuaries (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2001).

The nationwide law prohibits permanent structures on any beach within 50 meters of the high tide line.

Above the high tide line, Haystack Rock is protected as part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, providing habitat and viewing of a wide range of seabirds including the most accessible colony of Tufted Puffins in the Northwest.

The rest of the beach is lined with beachfront homes that sit just above the high tide line.

It attracts a large number of visitors each year because of its fantastic beaches, with wide stretches of fine white sand and evergreen forests that brush against the high tide line.

As all of the Costa Rican coastline is public property (at least the first 50 meters to the high tide line) and one can access it from the south via Matapalo and from the north via Playa Brasilito.

When you get to your evening campsite, all group members must to be able to help carry the kayaks above the high tide line, in teams of 6 - 8, before the group disperses.

There's a group of fisherman who live just above the high tide line in some jenky rooms built in to the cliff that someone told us they call «the boiler boys.»

The size of this refuge is 156.3 Hectares, or 386.4 acres, and includes the land from 50 meters behind the high tide line.

The first fifty meters from the high tide line is public property, and can not be built upon, so it also acts as a wildlife corridor.

She chooses a well - protected area, above the high tide line, and begins the arduous process of digging the nest.

Another thing I noticed along the high tide line in front of the waves and probably right along the whole shoreline in the area.

It is so popular because of its expansive white sand beaches backed by an evergreen forest that grows right up to the high tide line.

They lay in drifts, unbroken, above the highest tide line.

Projection for how Miami Beach would fare if water levels rose to four feet above the high tide line.

Florida is the most at - risk state from a sea level rise perspective, with 2,120 square miles of land sitting at less than three feet above the high tide line.