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The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve encompasses a diversity of land and water areas around Great Bay, an estuary in southeastern New Hampshire.Protected lands cover 10,235 acres (4,142 ha), including approximately 7,300 acres (3,000 ha) [1] of open water and wetlands that include salt marshes, rocky shores, bluffs, woodlands, open fields, and riverine systems and tidal waters.
Great Bay Discovery Center features exhibits about the estuary's natural history, salt marsh farming, salmon migration, plankton, tides and research Harris Center for Conservation Education: Hancock: Hillsborough: Monadnock: website, land trust and education center, over 16 miles (26 km) of trails Loon Center: Moultonborough: Carroll: Lakes
Located within the Gulf of Maine watershed, the Great Bay Estuary is a drowned river valley composed of high-energy tidal waters, deep channels and fringing mudflats. The entire estuary extends inland from the mouth of the Piscataqua River between Kittery, Maine, and New Castle, New Hampshire through Little Bay into Great Bay proper at Furber Strait, a distance of 12 miles (19 km).
Both Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge, and the Karner Blue butterfly easement in Concord, New Hampshire, which protects important habitat for this federally endangered species, are managed by the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The refuge has a surface area of 1,116 acres (4.52 km 2). [1]
This is a list of science centers in the United States. American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) member centers are granted institutional benefits and may offer benefits to individuals through purchased or granted individual memberships as well.
Santa Clara's Great America amusement park will close in six to 11 years after being sold to Prologis, a real estate developer, for $310 million. Great America was the Bay Area's Disneyland. Now ...
Great Bay may refer to: Great Bay (New Hampshire), a tidal estuary in southeastern New Hampshire; Great Bay (New Jersey), a tidal estuary north of Atlantic City; Great Bay, Tasmania. a locality in Australia; Greater Bay Area, a megalopolis in South China
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