This area here was chosen out of all the estuaries all over the United States to be the first national estuarine research reserve, which says a lot about Oregon and what the politics of that time allowed and supported.

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In low tide, the eelgrass meadows lay over flat on the mud flats. On a high tide, they go vertical. They're very dense meadows, and these meadows provide very important cover for things like juvenile Dungeness crab.

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