A wood, a big one bordering on a coastal marsh.
Frequently, some seasonal movement of stock between the forest and coastal marshes seems to have taken place.
New England's coastal marshes, he said, are "in a direct line" for oil spills.
At the Strood end the coastal marsh became 600 yds wide.
The fort was built on what was then peninsula of land rising above the coastal marshes.
Each year, Louisiana loses 25 to 35 square miles of coastal marsh, largely because of federal activities.
In the region, coastal marshes and wide tidal flats.
They cause serious damage to coastal marshes and may dig burrows in levees.
They'll wander sometimes as far south as New Jersey and stay close to the coastal marshes.
Rampant malaria in the coastal marshes reinforced this decision.