Privately owned tracts are home to a hardy bunch of ranchers, retirees and a country inn where we planned to stay for a few days while exploring the wilderness area and its rich, diverse wildlife along one of the state's last pristine creeks.
We recommend: The nearby walking trails, which weave through pristine creeks, rockpools and a glow worm colony.
These areas comprise large shallow sounds and other estuarine lagoons and tidal creeks, relatively pristine saltmarsh, mangrove and other wetlands, subtidal seagrass and oyster beds, and upland maritime forest.
The press described how we had "trampled" a "massive ancient redwood grove," run roughshod over a "pristine" public park, leading to "sedimentation" of a creek that was a spawning ground for steelhead trout.
At its heart is a pristine Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course that meanders along a river and creek; through woods and wetlands; and, most striking, across tall, white sand dunes overlooking Lake Michigan.
Andreas Canyon, the first of the three, is impossibly picturesque, a pristine mirage-like oasis of skirted palm trees flanking a spring-fed creek.
With 10 miles of pristine beaches and large tracts of salt marshes, freshwater wetlands and tidal creeks, the development is lauded for its natural feel, despite having roughly 4,100 residences and a 255-room hotel spread around its 10,000 acres.
This study used 10 parallel, smallscale constructed wetlands to investigate the potential for methylmercury (MeHg) production and water quality improvement using water and sediment from a creek that is a significant source of non-point nutrient, sediment and Hg pollution to a pristine river.
They provide a pristine link to two long-disconnected sections of the trail and take hikers away from whizzing cars and into a world of rustling cattails, songbirds, a swiftly flowing creek and serene acres of field.
