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The grasses and animals living in marshes help to filter water and stabilize shorelines, along with providing habitat for a variety of mammals, fish, shellfish and amphibians and a haven for migratory waterfowl.

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How Hurricanes Shape Wetlands in Southern Louisiana

November 2013

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A manatee swims in Crystal River, Florida.

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From Mermaids to Manatees: the Myth and the Reality

March 2014

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Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later

April 2012

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A landscape photo of a shoreline with tall grass-like plants lining the water's edge.

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Make Me Care About: Phragmites

March 2011

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