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Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve — View of the bay through a mangrove forest in Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida
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Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Florida · FL

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Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve protects 110,000 acres of coastal lands and waters at the northern end of the Ten Thousand Islands on the gulf coast of Florida, representing one of the few remaining undisturbed mangrove estuaries in North America.

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