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Side view of a red lawn mower.
Lawn Mower
Equipment used to spread fertilizer on residential lawns.
Lawn Fertilizer Spreader
An image illustrates how lawn fertilizer can negatively impact the watershed when rain washes it into the water system.
Lawn Fertilizer Limitation as a Key Stewardship…
View of coiled garden hose
Garden hose
Illustration of government.
Government 2
Bald cypress knees in algae.
Bald Cypress Knees
While palm trees still abound in this manicured area of Kaanapali (on Maui), little undergrowth can be seen on the lawns right next to the ocean.
Palm trees
Raingear for the US Coast Guard
US Coast Guard
Illustration map of Delaware Bay in Delaware and New Jersey, USA
USA DE NJ: Delaware Bay
Illustration map of Delaware Inland Bays in Delaware, USA
USA DE: Delaware Inland Bays
Illustration map of St. Johns River in Florida, USA
USA FL: St. Johns River
Illustration map of Stono and North Edisto Rivers in South Carolina, USA
USA SC: Stono and North Edisto Rivers
Front view illustration of an Aweoweo, endemic to the Hawaiian islands. Native water and land birds (e.g., Nihoa finch), and seabirds use Aweoweo for food, nesting material or nesting sites. Early Hawaiians used the wood to form shark hooks (makau mano) fitted with bone points. Aweoweo leaves and shoots were wrapped in ti leaves, cooked and eaten in times of food scarcity by early Hawaiians.
Chenopodium oahuense (Aweoweo)
Near the mouth of Delaware Bay at Cape May, New Jersey at sunset in the winter. The trail through the dune grasses leads to the beach.
Delaware Bay
Tucked deep in backyard grass, these baby Eastern Cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) were discovered just as a spring mowing was beginning in Neavitt, Maryland.
Baby rabbits
Illustration of Chesapeake Bay watershed
USA: Chesapeake Bay watershed
Looking northwest up Laws Thorofare. Deal Island Marsh and Straight Gut are situated on the western side, and Laws Gut can be seen in the northern background.
Laws Thorofare
Looking northwest up Laws Thorofare. Deal Island Marsh and Straight Gut are situated on the western side. Tangier Sound is in the northern background.
Laws Thorofare and Tangier Sound
Residential development with lawns, pools, and open space. Nestled between fields being prepared for the growing season.
Residential development
Ghost Crab (ocypode quadrata
Ghost Crab on the beach
Illustration of ngalawa (traditional Swahili boat)
Boat: Ngalawa (traditional Swahili boat)
Illustration of Coastal Bays in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, USA
USA DE MD VA: Coastal Bays
Illustration map of Coastal Bays watershed in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, USA
USA DE MD VA: Coastal Bays watershed
Illustration locator map of Coastal Bays watershed in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, USA
USA DE MD VA: Coastal Bays watershed locator map
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