Sentences with phrase «marsh land»

It's definitely a gift to be able to have so many trees and all the marsh land surrounding our property.

Hello Melissa, I live in the beautiful Ottawa Valley in Ontario in a small red brick bungalow that sits on 40 acres of pine plantation and some marsh land.

The house is situated on a 1.5 acre lot that appears to back up to river front / marsh land.

The St. Augustine landscape is a mixture of beautiful marsh land, scenic and sandy beaches, wild inlets, and coastal forests.

Most of the land along the St. Marys is either privately owned or very difficult - to - access swamp and marsh land.

With a vast area of pure untouched beach with shrubs, trees and marsh lands providing shade, it is one of the most amazing beach locations in the country.

If the river were allowed to overflow it's banks as nature intended you would still have marsh lands and barrier islands that would protect the city and the surrounding areas.

The weather was horrible and the beach was very dirty from the marsh lands.

Not exact matches

Additionally, Local Engagement Officers, other Commonwealth Environmental Water Office staff and State and local water delivery partners are working with the Ta - Ru Lands Board of Management, Narri Narri and Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations, and Ngiyampaa Wayilwan in the Macquarie Marshes.

The marshes are seaward, east of town, on land belonging to the Crown.

«Farm fields, upland forests, streams, ponds, and marshes — this land has everything.

In addition to providing habitat for various salt marsh species, the land also provides opportunities for salt marsh migration in an age of climate change.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

Creation of the wildlife sanctuary, situated between scenic Route 1A and Plum Island Sound, protects vulnerable coastal land from development and ensures the public will be able to explore and enjoy one of the most beautiful salt marsh and adjoining upland habitats in the state.

The lands that were lost were also breeding grounds for marine mammals, brown pelicans, turtles, and fish, as well as migratory species such as redhead ducks.Overall, about 20 % of the local marshes were permanently overrun by water as a result of the storm.

In the 19th century, this land was a desolate, tide - swept marsh.

Because they're located in the transition between land and ocean — the terrestrial - aquatic interface — the challenge for salt marshes is that their biogeochemistry is also influenced by tides, which bring matter and energy in as they rise.

Sea - level rise and subsidence of the Mississippi Delta are causing large swaths of land to turn to marsh, then open water, leaving narrow strands of land barely above the muddy waters.

Sending sediment - rich water into the marshes helps create more land in the sinking delta.

The biodiversity of the tundras is low: 1,700 species of flora and only 48 land mammals can be found, although thousands of insects and birds migrate there each year for the marshes.

Today those paddies have become barely discernible, transformed into pockets of marsh, and the new occupants of these lands arrive as dazzling white squadrons of red - crowned cranes that glide over the bulrushes in perfect formation, touching down so lightly that they detonate no land mines.

Globally, salt marshes are being lost to waves, changes in land use, higher sea levels, loss of sediment from upstream dams and other factors.

In Sarianidi's view, this harsh land of desert, marsh, and steppe may instead have served as a center in a broad, early trading network, the hub of a wheel connecting goods, ideas, and technologies among the earliest of urban peoples.

Pilings that held weekend camps surrounded by thick marshes a decade ago stand in open water, hundreds of yards from the nearest land — mute testimony to a vanishing culture.

One, written by Andrew St Joseph, environmental consultant and resident of the Essex marshes, recommends that 30 kilometres of Essex sea wall, defending 10 square kilometres of land, should no longer be maintained.

This will allow a new salt marsh to form behind the wall, on land that was previously cattle pasture.

Marshes that harbored oil had a different set of insects than less affected swamps, and in some the oil killed off plant life, allowing Gulf waters to wash away more land.

«The edge of the marsh has been knocked back farther and more land has been lost,» D'Elia says.

On land, however, I watched a frenzy of activity as locals prepared to deal with tainted marshes, sickened fish, and tarred wildlife.

Sediment analyses indicate that a spit of land skirted the marsh to the west, opposite Troy, enclosing a sheltered, U-shape bay.

Lobe - finned ancestors of the lungfishes as well as tetrapods could have evolved hindlimb propulsion and the ability to walk on the substrate at the bottom of a lake or marsh millions of years before limbs with digits and land - dwelling animals appeared.

Ridge restoration projects can work with hydrologic restoration projects to reestablish historic salinities within the basin, reduce shoreline erosion of marsh creation projects and trap sediment from sediment diversions to help build land more quickly.

She was gazing down at a dip in the land that locals called Lake Turngaluk, the Lake of Bad Spirits, though it was mostly dry now, pitted here and there by windings of briny marsh.

Over 500 acres of mostly unspoiled land, filled with walking trails, vistas, salt water marshes and beaches.

These varied land forms support more than 600 plant species in ten different plant communities from marsh and grasslands to chaparral and pine forests.

Coastal marshes and beaches, rivers, inland lakes and marshes, river banks, and the land immediately surrounding all are frequented.

Yet the ocean is a patchwork of habitats that reach from the deepest offshore waters, to where the sea meets and blends with the land in bays, lagoons, marshes, beaches, and tide pools.

After 70 acres of asphalt and concrete had been crushed and reused, 87,000 tons of hazardous material removed, and 130,000 plugs of salt grass planted by hand, we had created a gorgeous 100 - acre swath of national parkland — including a restored grassy field, revitalized marsh, new shoreline promenade, and an environmental education facility, the Crissy Field Center, to ensure our stewardship of the land endures in future generations.

The island's Northwest Point is a combination of beautiful inlets, marshes, mangroves and in land ponds, which serve as a haven for bird life.

The barrier islands of Cape St George, Dog Island, and St Vincent National Wildlife Refuge boast wild, isolate marshes packed with wildlife and birds, and land - based adventures include Tate's Hell State Forest the expansive Apalachicola National Forest for birding, fishing, and hiking.

There are six main worlds (forest, industrial, marsh, winter land, hell, Ancient Egypt), each with six levels and a boss fight in each world.

Inspired by her travels and the marshes, trees, land and light surrounding her own home, Gornik examines nature in its purest state, capturing its solitude, enormity, and the intrinsic serenity associated with land untouched.

Kanwar's gorgeously produced film shows the contested lands in Odisha — sea, marsh, farms, rivers — that look eerily similar to the Houston region (sans, of course, the massive industrial complexes that already dominate here).

Kemp and colleagues used salt marshes in North Carolina, where the land has steadily sunk by about two meters in the past two millennia due to glacial isostatic adjustment.

«Data from GPS measurements and carbon dating of marsh sediments indicate that regional land subsidence in response to glacial isostatic adjustment in the southern Chesapeake Bay region may have a current rate of about 1 mm / yr (Engelhart and others, 2009; Engelhart and Horton, 2012).

Fisher king of river, marsh and sea, So you must come to land and spread Your wings to dry, (streaked feathers Metallic in sunlight like an iron birds») That you may fly.

Biosphere: How Life Alters Climate People had long speculated that the climate might be altered where forests were cut down, marshes drained or land irrigated.

This scenic land contains more than half a mile of shoreline along two significant wetlands — the tidal marsh in Vanderburgh Cove and a globally rare tidal swamp — as well as Fallsburg Creek, a Hudson River tributary.

The role of marsh - dominated heterotrophic continental margins in transport of CO2 between the atmosphere, the land - sea interface and the ocean.

Apparently the marshes around the castle have also been actively reclaimed as the land was so valuable.