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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 9, 1969
18 A.
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By Lynn M. Watkim
About the Rugged
World of Tidal Flat
When the tide goes out and
the hot sun beats down, the
tidal flat, that disputed area
between high and low water,
becomes dry land.
Hours later the incoming
water cover it, soaks down
and cools it and awakens the
hosts of living creatures that
know it as home.
The tidal flat is a densely
populated area, a myriad of
living creatures live their
mundane lives in an environ
ment that is alternatly bone
dry for hours at a time and
exceedingly wet for other in
tervals. Besides their many
enemies, the creatures that
live here constantly have to
fight floods and droughts.
A LifeUn Place
Ordinarily, we think of a
tidal flat as an area of sand or
mud which is exposed during
the ebb-tide; a lifeless place.
At least once every 24 hours
it becomes dry or semi-dry
and then, as the water comes
creeping in, completely inun
dated. Here are the two ex
tremes flood and drought.
But in this seemingly lifeless
area live one of the most mot
' ley collections of creatures
that can be found anywhere
on this earth.
These animals must be
adatable to an elastic degree.
Many of the inhabitants are
smaller than the period at the
end of a printed sentence.
Others are much larger.
There are several varieties
of crabs, together with a host
of their relatives, such as the
sand-fleas, mantis-shrimp, hun
dreds of worms and mollusks
by the thousands. Every one
of them, the great and the
small, must be ever alert,
ready to burrow down into
the sand or mud when the
water drains away from the
flat.
If they wait too long they
will die from sun exposure.
Down in the wet sand they
wait until the murmur of the
incoming tide awakens them.
As the water covers the sand
they crawl up toward the sur
face. They adjust their up
ward climb, the speed of their
ascent, to the rise of the wa
ter, emerging from the sand
only when the ocean covers
the flat. Then they become
feverishly active, as If know
ing that in a few hours they
will again be forced to go below-ground.
Too Hatty
A too hasty appearance
above the sand-ceiling of
their environment would be
fatal. If the sun did not dry
them out, a hungry bird might
spot them. There would be
hazards of many kinds. With
a blanket of water over them
they arc reasonably safe.
They feed and mate, for soon
the sea will leave and thov
will be stranded again, it's al
ways "later than they tmi.n '
and it Is fortunate that they
cannot think.
Their little lives are ad
justed and attuned to the tides
which of course wait for no
man or any other animal.
These little inhabitants of the
and flats are the counterparts
of our own "clock-watchers
and whistle listeners."
Try as hard as they will
they will never see the day
when conditions will be any
better or any different, it's a
tough life and a short one.
(Released by Tht Register
and Tribune Syndicate, 1960)
Political Science
Seminar at Eugene
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Freeman of Minnesota is
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American Political Science
Association Seminar here for
winners of public aifairs re
porting awards.
The seminar is under direc
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versity of Oregon, and Evron
M. Kirkpatrick, executive di
rector of the American Politi
cal Science Association. It
(started Tuesday and runs to
July 6.
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program along with faculty
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