The shoreline areas were extensively used for centuries as a salt meadows.

The grazed salt meadows are classified as very good.

In the east there are flat salt meadows.

It is, like the Roschen, very flat and only covered by typical salt meadow vegetation.

This last activity mainly involves raising cattle in the fertile, often flooded, salt meadows.

Reeds and salt meadow vegetation grows in the silted-up zones.

About two thirds of it was sweet, and one third of it salt meadows.

This grows in the salt meadows immediately next to the coast and is prepared, like Grünkohl, as a thick stew.

Salt Meadow is used by over 280 species of migrating neotropical birds during the spring and fall migrations.

The ground water can reach over 15 percent salt, and this was naturally concentrated in flat salt meadows during the hot dry summers.

In contrast to other salt meadows along the North Sea they contain numerous ponds and puddles.

By 1840, Beaver Creek had been diverted and a long wharf was built out several hundred feet into the salt meadow.

In New Zealand the plant has spread rapidly, changing mudflats with marshy fringes to extensive salt meadows.

High marshes are usually dominated by salt meadow grass, spike grass, sea lavender and low vigor smooth cordgrass.

The salt meadows are of special ecological importance, since they belong to the few salt meadows that remain in their natural state.

Even in the 19th century it still occurred in the salt meadows south of Kloster and on Fährinsel in stable numbers.

It is said that the name Vlissingen means "salt meadow," given as a nod to the tidal waters of Flushing Meadows.

This donation became Salt Meadow National Wildlife Refuge.

The flat nature of the delta causes high tides to travel deep into the delta, creating salt meadows up to 10 km upstream from Rytkuchi.

There are also tide pools, salt marshes, salt meadows, a coast strewn with Ice Age boulders and endless stands of trees.

In the centre is a frequently-flooded salt meadow landscape, the Roschen, which is only 40 cm above the level of the Baltic Sea.

The local climate, especially the air on the dunes and beach, salt meadows and forest, in particular, contain high levels of aerosolized salts and iodine.

Practically underfoot were luxuriant spreads of salt marsh cordgrass and a few inches higher up salt meadow cordgrass.

Other features of EU Importance: 13 habitats, including the estuary, spartina swards, salt meadows and embryo dunes.

Since 1991, part of the cape is protected as a natural monument, which is also home to the only salt meadow on the shores of the Mediterranean sea.