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Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes

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The Role of Mud Cracking in the Red Beach

After drought, cracks appear all over the mud flat. This is a typical site of seepweed for self-organization. The plants are growing out of the cracks and following that, the salt marsh vegetation can recover very quickly across the entire landscape. When you look at an aerial view of this region, it's just amazing. You see these red banks of plants cut through with estuaries, small streams, it's ocean and March and red. It just looks amazing and very lush.

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