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wmpe2000: acer aflame
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wmpe2000: Phragmites australis spikelets
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wmpe2000: red beard sponge, Long Island Sound
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wmpe2000: bi-directional sand ripples low tide at Silver Sands beach, Long Island Sound
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wmpe2000: the tombolo narrows as the tide rises
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wmpe2000: Spartina alterniflora
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wmpe2000: wooded upland of Charles Island serves as a rookery for herons, egrets, and shore birds - the trees have been decimated over the years due to hurricanes
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wmpe2000: invasive European green crab
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wmpe2000: invertebrates
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wmpe2000: “You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.” — Louise Erdrich
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wmpe2000: a school of Atlantic silverside fish flashed silver
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wmpe2000: low tide - bladder wrack
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wmpe2000: barnacle and dogwinkle encrusted boulder left behind by the last ice age that peaked 21,000 years ago and was fully retreated by 10,000 years ago
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wmpe2000: Double-crested cormorants standing on a swim platform in Long Island Sound
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wmpe2000: intertidal zone, high marsh zone and the edge of the woodland zone
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wmpe2000: Bladder wrack - Fucus vesiculosus mounds at low tide in the intertidal zone
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wmpe2000: Spartina alterniflora on the the high side of an intertidal zone
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wmpe2000: egret nest on Charles Island, Connecticut's largest wading bird rookery
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wmpe2000: Spartina alterniflora in the intertidal zone on Charles Island looking toward Silver Sands beach
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wmpe2000: invasive Oriental bittersweet not to be confused with the beneficial native, American bittersweet
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wmpe2000: Mentha spicata
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wmpe2000: ring billed gull
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wmpe2000: slipper snails and red beard sponge