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Editors’ Note, July 31, 2024: This article originally cited the wrong journal for a study about a California salt marsh.
—Hannah Richter, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
The refuge’s dunes and salt marshes are a birder’s paradise with species like bald eagles, terns, songbirds, and various waterfowl migrating in and out throughout the year.
—Madeline Weinfield, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Taylor County is in Florida's Big Bend, where salt marshes and pine flatwoods stretch into the horizon, and where the condominium developments and strip malls that have carved up much of the state's coastlines are largely absent.
—Stephen Smith, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
Big Bend region hit hard Florida's Big Bend is a part of the state where salt marshes and pine flatwoods stretch into the horizon, and where the condo developments and strip malls that have carved up so much of the state's coastlines are largely absent.
—Stephen Smith, TIME, 28 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of salt marsh was
before the 12th century
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“Salt marsh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salt%20marsh. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
salt marsh
noun
: flat land that is overflowed by salt water
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