Sentences with phrase «marshes at»

This island's first golf course and the Riviera Maya's newest championship test of golf, and it took five years to be sculpted in the limestone and the coral and saltwater marshes at the northwest shores of Cozumel island.

Most sites will need pumps to control that flow and keep water in the marsh at an optimal level.

Three very different proposals were presented Monday for one of the most potentially memorable sites in San Francisco - 8 acres facing the marsh at Crissy Field, downhill from the Presidio's Main Post.

In earlier times there was a marsh at the foot of the mountain, frequented by large herds of game and also where travelers watered their animals.

Louisiana's Governor reported yesterday that a blanket of heavy oil had coated 35 miles of marsh at the entrance to the Mississippi River.

Town Brook was a fresh water source for the Pilgrims and a marsh at the outlet of the brook provided protection for their boats.

We absolutely loved staying on the back marsh at Tybee Tides!!

Not exact matches

The dead bodies in the marshes around Mordor were an example of this — Tolkein fought in the wet trenches of WWI and saw many a submerged dead body staring at the sky.

What was that great regal marsh - dwelling creature Doing there among the bread - begging mallards In the tame little duckpond of the Japanese garden At the city - run, hedge - clipped Brooklyn Botanic?

So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by agreement we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her.

Information collected from the monitoring will inform adaptive environmental water management in the Macquarie Marshes and at other important waterbird locations across the basin.

As part of the AWS certification process, auditors look at a number of factors within the groundwater basins where facilities are located, such as water quality, the availability of existing water sources, and the health of water - related areas, such as marshes, in the region.

One of 5 salt islands on the Louisiana coast, Avery Island stands at 163 feet above mean sea level and is surrounded by low - lying swamps and marshes.

He picked me up at my hotel outside of town just after sunrise in a Porsche Macan and drove us out to the salt marsh.

The MLS offense was slower than a drunk over 60's team at Hackney Marshes.

With ODB hurt and B - marsh not producing, focusing on using multiple TE sets could at the very least help out our OTs.

GOLF — GRAHAM MARSH of Australia won the $ 225,000 World Match Play championship at Virginia Water, England, 5 and 3 over Ray Floyd, who played the final round accompanied by four guards after receiving an anonymous death threat.

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Pepperweed has been growing and spreading at an alarming pace, particularly in salt marshes.

Perennial Pepperweed is an invasive weed that has been growing and spreading at an alarming pace, particularly in salt marshes.

There are almost three miles of multipurpose trails and they wind through a variety of habitats at the preserve, including prairie, woodland and marsh.

View of marsh and Cape Cod Canal at Osprey Overlook, where a pair of ospreys may be seen providing for their brood during spring and summer.

Wandering through pine forest on old carriage roads and deer paths, you may encounter a roosting great horned owl or a wading heron at the marsh edge.

Families can visit the Pegwell Bay Country Park to discover more of the mudflats and salt marshes and take a closer look at the varied nature.

As part of Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project, scientists and students have been measuring the salinity (salt content) of water at different depths to learn whether Phragmites distribution within the salt marsh is controlled by ground water (water deep below the ground surface that is the source of well and spring water) or interstitial salinity (water just below the ground surface from the tide).

Many species of birds associated with forests, freshwater marshes, and shrublands are found at this site.

Bandshell at Forest Park in Woodhaven • $ 300,000 to improve lighting along the shorefront facing Queens in Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island • $ 1.5 million to renovate the baseball fields at Glen Oaks Playground in Glen Oaks • $ 1 million to renovate Hallets Cove Playground in Astoria • $ 975,000 to improve the asphalt field at Hoffman Park in Elmhurst • $ 1.3 million to construct a meditation garden and upgrade Rachel Carson Playground in Kissena Corridor Park in Flushing • $ 322,000 to construct a skate park at Laurelton Playground in Laurelton • $ 850,000 to upgrade Lannett Playground in Far Rockaway • $ 600,000 to renovate Maple Playground in Flushing • $ 1.5 million to install new play equipment and to upgrade the sprinklers and surface at Mauro Playground in Kew Gardens Hills • $ 350,000 for landscape improvements along the Merrick Boulevard Mall in Springfield Gardens • $ 700,000 to enhance the lawn area, install new walkways, decorate pavers, install new benches and plantings, create a new entry and repair the retaining wall at Newtown Playground in Elmhurst • $ 2 million to upgrade to existing benches and equipment in Norelli Hargreaves Park in Jamaica • $ 300,000 for a mall enhancement and tree plantings along the Northern Boulevard Mall between 62nd Street and 102nd Street in Woodside / Jackson Heights • $ 400,000 to renovate Kingsland Homestead in Flushing • $ 3 million for the preservation of the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 480,000 to replace the aviary mesh and marsh bridge at the Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 2 million to renovate the asphalt field at the World's Fair Playground in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 800,000 to formalize the picnic grove, add gravel pads and grills, install new fences and benches and upgrade the basketball courts in Rainey Park in Astoria • $ 1.5 million for turf and track upgrades at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica • $ 1.4 million to renovate Sandpiper Playground in Rockaway Beach • $ 600,000 to renovate the museum building at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City • $ 500,000 construct a dog run at Triborough Bridge Playground B in Astoria • $ 375,000 for pavers and accent lighting at Tribute Park in the Rockaways • $ 250,000 for site acquisition to add to Udalls Cove in Little Neck • $ 175,000 to improve sidewalk and perimeter of Veterans Grove in Elmhurst • $ 1.6 million to resurface the baseball field and upgrade the play equipment at Vleigh Playground in Flushing • $ 300,000 to support the borough's Tree Stump Removal Program.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

Columbia plans to build a new $ 100 million 47,700 - square - foot field house at 218th Street and Broadway and has promised a host of community amenities in exchange, including a $ 3 million investment in the sports fields, which would be more readily accessible for community use and a new boathouse marsh that would be «gifted» to the city for public use.

The benefits such marsh gas systems provide seem to be as bright as the blue flame in the biogas burners — at least to the next generation like Yu, who treasures the remaining forest.

To make this determination Kemp and his team studied salt - marsh sediments from Barnegat Bay in northern New Jersey, south of the tide gauge at Battery Park in New York.

Monks of the Camaldolese branch of the Benedictine order lived here, surrounded by a tall wall and moat, at the edge of marshes and oak woods, according to the town's official history.

The drainage, combined with a harsh anti-insurgency campaign, caused at least 140,000 marsh inhabitants to flee their homeland, many over the border into Iran.

Achieving ecological objectives requires planning beyond minimum flows and indicator species to encompass seasonal floods and slack flows and a holistic look at the plants, fish, fungi, birds and other life inhabiting the river, its banks and its marshes.

It is amazing how quickly the marsh changes — very accessible at low tide, but at high tide you can find yourself swimming back.»

360 - degree, computer - generated disasters At the bike path along the marshes between Mill Valley and Sausalito, users can click through four visualizations displayed on a tablet built into the devices.

Recent research suggests that healthy, intact coastal wetland ecosystems such as mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are particularly good at drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it for hundreds to thousands of years.

At particular risk are coastal salt marshes.

Joy Zedler carefully planned the three experimental wetlands at the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Arboretum to be identical: parallel marshes 295 feet long and 15 feet wide, carved by engineers into the green landscape.

Mud cores pulled from marshes in the city show that the sea level is already rising faster there than at any time in the past 1,500 years, according to research published in the Holocene Journal in January.

A new study appearing in the June 15 issue of Environmental Science & Technology reveals that droppings from the marsh's seagulls are at least one major source of potentially hazardous bacteria that has been hitting the beachsometimes at levels thousands of times above the legal limit.

At first, all three species were present, to mirror the natural «intact» conditions of the marsh.

Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.

Ribbed mussels, once plentiful before many marshes were paved over, are a natural choice for scrubbing the Bronx River, says team member Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Milford Laboratory in Connecticut.

The effect of the species removals on individual functions varied considerably, because in salt marshes, each species is very good at performing one or two functions.

In 1991, English Nature, the government's main conservation agency, began a small but potentially important experiment in «managed retreat» of the coastline at Northey Island, a small patch of salt marsh and grazing pasture owned by the National Trust in Essex's Blackwater estuary.

«If we had only been looking at three different species of similarly functioning crabs, or only one marsh function, we would have missed that, and erroneously predicted that only one consumer species is needed to maintain high system performance,» he said.

The oldest ones were found at the marsh's edge and dated back some 4000 years.

Researchers at the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER site are monitoring and documenting many of these changes among different coastal habitats, including barrier islands, salt marshes, rivers and estuaries.

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.