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The Hockomock Swamp is a vast wetland encompassing much of the northern part of southeastern Massachusetts. This 16,950-acre (6,859 ha) [1] land is considered the largest freshwater swamp in the state. It acts as a natural flood control mechanism for the region.
A road sign for the trail system in Newton County [9]. The Texas coast has been popular among bird watchers in the United States for decades. [7] Located where the Central Flyway meets the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Flyway, the region sees a large number of migrants; in addition, the southern part of the Texas coast is far enough south to host a number of tropical species. [10]
Map of the major and minor estuaries of the Gulf Coast of Texas. The U.S. state of Texas has a series of estuaries along its coast on the Gulf of Mexico, most of them bounded by the Texas barrier islands. Estuaries are coastal bodies of water in which freshwater from rivers mixes with saltwater from the sea.
The State of Texas (United States) has designated numerous trail systems and nature preserves as part of the "Great Texas Wildlife Trails." These are broken into four major trail systems. Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail ; Seabrook Trail System; Heart of Texas Wildlife Trail (Central Texas) Panhandle Plains Wildlife Trail
The Hockomock River is a 3.6-mile-long (5.8 km) [1] stream in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It is a tributary of the Town River . Hockomock is said to mean "Place where Spirits Dwell" in the Wampanoag language .
Texas Gulf Coast is an intertidal zone which borders the coastal region of South Texas, Southeast Texas, and the Texas Coastal Bend.The Texas coastal geography boundaries the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a geographical distance relative bearing at 367 miles (591 km) of coastline according to CRS [1] and 3,359 miles (5,406 km) of shoreline according to NOAA.
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (Spanish:; 1494–1520) was a Spanish conquistador and cartographer who was the first to prove the insularity of the Gulf of Mexico by sailing around its coast. In doing so he created the first map to depict what is now Texas and parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States .
View of the wetland trails. The Baytown Nature Center was, for many years, a highly desirable residential neighborhood known as Brownwood with nearly 400 substantial homes on a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) peninsula. [2] In 1961, Hurricane Carla devastated the Texas Gulf Coast, flooding most of Brownwood and ending any new development in the area ...