Sentences with phrase «largest coastal wetlands»

On the inland side of Pacific Coast Highway lies one of the largest coastal wetlands in Southern California.

«If you have large coastal wetlands and that area gets paved, you don't have a lot of land that can soak up water,» Gettelman noted.

The National Park Service (NPS) and The Nature Conservancy are actively restoring what was once the largest coastal wetland on the Channel Islands.

Historically, the Prisoners area was once the largest coastal wetland on the Channel Islands.

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After a few days of severe rain last year, neighborhoods resembled wetlands, streets had turned into rivers, and a large piece of the main coastal road had fallen into the ocean.

During the March «From Shore to Sea» lecture, biologist Paula Power discussed a large - scale effort by the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy to restore the coastal wetland at Prisoners Harbor on Santa Cruz Island.

The Mesoamerican Reef System — often referred to as the «Jewel of the Caribbean» — is the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and a rich tapestry of vivid corals, mangrove forests, coastal wetlands, and diverse marine wildlife.

The move was seen as a necessary countermeasure to widespread coastal loss and degradation, which had already resulted in over 90 percent of the state's wetlands being lost and in large fisheries population declines, among other harmful consequences.