Filiberta Ordaz de Cab lives atop a garbage dump in the middle of a coastal marsh and thanks the government for the privilege.
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The refuge includes grasslands, woods, impenetrable thornbrush and coastal marshes along the Laguna Madre, the fish-rich waters between the Texas mainland and Padre Island.
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Scientists hope their success at Pilgrim Lake will provide a springboard for an ambitious effort to restore nearly all the Outer Cape's coastal marshes.
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And then, deadpan : " Should be lots of nice coastal marsh habitat when the ice caps melt and the sea level rises ."
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Nearly seven years later, delicate coastal marshes that serve as a nursery for shrimp, flounder, crabs and other marine life have not fully recovered.
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Deterioration of coastal marshes, as a result of saltwater intrusion, land subsidence and the lack of interchanges from the Mississippi River have increased surge inundation.
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Currently Louisiana has 30 % of the total coastal marsh and accounts for 90 % of the coastal marsh loss in the lower 48 states.
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Currently Louisiana has 30 % of the total coastal marsh and accounts for 90 % of the coastal marsh loss in the lower 48 states.
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It encompasses 825, 000 acres of South Texas land _ coastal marshes, pastures, farmland _ that is larger than the entire state of Rhode Island.
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These forests form on limestone outcroppings with very thin soil; the higher elevation separating them from other habitats such as coastal marshes and marl prairies.
