BEACHES ANIMALS PLANTS

Beaches North: rock and rolling waves Central: cobbles and cliffs South: sand and surf Beach basics: parts of the beach Drift: how sand moves Animals Snowy Plover: saving a shorebird Gray whale: close to the coast Humpback whale: song of the sea Oregon silverspot butterfly: violet visitor Razor clam: surf and shellfish Green crab: concerns about crab Plants Spartina: taking over tide flats Beachgrass: shaping the shore Sitka spruce: foggy forests Dune plants: tough but fragile

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