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Elkhorn Slough is a 7-mile-long (11 km) [2] [3] tidal slough and estuary on Monterey Bay in Monterey County, California. It is California's second largest estuary and the United States' first estuarine sanctuary. [4] The community of Moss Landing and the Moss Landing Power Plant are located at the mouth of the slough on the bay.
Charlotte Harbor Estuary is a natural estuary spanning the west coast of Florida from Venice to Bonita Springs on the Gulf of Mexico and is one of the most productive wetlands in Florida. [1] The estuary has a large watershed, and includes Charlotte Harbor itself as well as the Peace River, Caloosahatchee River (via Pine Island Sound) and ...
With over 120 square miles (310 km 2) of surface area Willapa Bay is the second-largest riverine estuary on the Pacific coast of the continental United States. [2] Early settlers called the bay Shoalwater Bay and this name is found on old maps and charts of the region.
San Francisco Bay is the second-largest estuary on the Pacific coast of the Americas, following the Salish Sea in Washington State and British Columbia, Canada. [ 7 ] The bay was navigable as far south as San Jose until the 1850s, when hydraulic mining released massive amounts of sediment from the rivers that settled in those parts of the bay ...
Estuaries of the United States by state (22 C) C. Chesapeake Bay (11 C, 38 P) ... National Estuary Program; O. Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve; S.
Little Squalicum Creek again empties into Bellingham Bay, with a new estuary designed to provide habitat for young salmon and other fish.. It’s part of a $5.7 million project that began in ...
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
With over 3,000 sq. mi. (7,800 km 2) of open water [3] the combined estuary is second only in size to 4,479 sq mi (11,600 km 2) Chesapeake Bay in the United States. The Pamlico Sound is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Outer Banks , a row of low, sandy barrier islands that include Cape Hatteras National Seashore , Cape Lookout National ...