Estuary Quotes

(Myers and Jeff Williams, another USGS scientist, noted that the lake already is polluted. Still, it is a critical estuary that supports important fisheries and wildlife habitat.) Clearly, there is cause for concern ... How much of a negative impact ... we are not in a position to say.

The moose are gone, and their bones lie under the sand in the soft coal which was the forest by the estuary, thousands of years ago.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

This estuary was a 40-foot-deep holding area for arriving salmon, and for juveniles heading out to sea, ... Now a wedge of sand and rock extends all the way upstream to Honeydew. Some estimate that area holds 80 million cubic yards of fill.