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Recent Examples of swale
The Bethany Beach firefly, for instance, lives only in swales — low-lying freshwater marsh areas near coastal dunes, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Bethany Beach fireflies live in low-lying, freshwater marsh areas near coastal dunes, called swales, that provide them with shelter and food.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
Save Our Swale program: The Public Works Department offers a program to rehabilitate swales fronting residential properties to enhance stormwater drainage.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
The watery enclave is a wildlife magnet at the edge of a sunny green swale.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
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Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Bethany Beach fireflies live in low-lying, freshwater marsh areas near coastal dunes, called swales, that provide them with shelter and food.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
Save Our Swale program: The Public Works Department offers a program to rehabilitate swales fronting residential properties to enhance stormwater drainage.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
The watery enclave is a wildlife magnet at the edge of a sunny green swale.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
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The route that runs straight through Darien, Georgia, and cuts across the marshes, rivers and creeks along coastal McIntosh County leads to a historic site: Butler Island, a once vast antebellum plantation.—
Melissa L. Cooper,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Medaka–aka the Japanese rice fish–are only about 1.4 inches long and can be found in rice paddies, ponds, marshes, quiet streams, and tide pools in Japan.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
8 Jan. 2025
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In addition, flamingos are increasingly being reported in the shallow treatment wetlands created along the northern fringe of the Everglades.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Nestled among 100 acres of wetlands in Snake River Canyon, there are six pools fed by hot springs scattered throughout the park, including a kids-only pool.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
6 Jan. 2025
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The sad end of the MS Aurora is a familiar story in the Delta’s marshy sloughs.—
Jessica Garrison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Nov. 2024
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The three-pronged approach removes makeup, sloughs off dead skin cells, and reduces the appearance of enlarged pores in a single step.—
Karina Hoshikawa,
refinery29.com,
23 Aug. 2024
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The place was a balsam bog loaded with snowshoe hares in Schoolcraft County on Michigan’s upper peninsula.—
Erwin A. Bauer,
Outdoor Life,
25 Dec. 2024
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Receiving leads via a tipline, the women then go hunting themselves, diving, wading or kayaking in Wisconsin’s bogs and shallow lakes, with little more to guide them than loose coordinates and a snorkel.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Dec. 2024
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World premiere | Documentary form | Short Film In the marshlands of southern Iraq, Ibrahim feels like a stranger in the world.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2025
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The colorful flora is among the delights in the marshland surrounding Charleston, which both protects the Lowcountry from the worst impact of storms and also provides a welcoming environment for aquatic creatures, including dolphins, herons, and blue crabs.—
Ellen Schmedinghoff,
AFAR Media,
14 Jan. 2025
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Jim Paladino, Tampa Start with the swamp The Sun Sentinel recently published a letter by Deb Tarrant of Hillsboro Beach that could have been written by Trump himself.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Jan. 2025
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The locations team was worried, however, that the swamp was too slippery for actors, crew and animals, its bed made up of mud and roots.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2025
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Saving a satyr The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen, and the Mitchell’s satyr is only found in these rare habitats that take thousands of years to develop.—
Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
31 Dec. 2024
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Earth’s earliest wildfires may have been fitful and erratic, flickering among the amphibious flora of fens and bogs.—
Ferris Jabr,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2024
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Some compress you like a sausage casing, others sag into shapeless blobs after one wash, and the worst?—
Boutayna Chokrane,
WIRED,
16 Jan. 2025
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To hand wash, fill up a basin with cool water, add detergent for delicates, and gently agitate before rinsing and squeezing out excess water.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Swale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swale. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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