1.   At UCLA, Farmer was given the job of studying microbial mats that grow in Mexican salt ponds.

2.   All other discussion, including possible mitigation by purchasing the salt ponds, was premature, environmentalists said.

3.   Diking and filling reclaimed otherwise unusable lands to build ports, railroad tracks, roads, pastures, farmland, salt ponds and houses.

4.   Environmentalists are excited that the government is finally moving to purchase and restore the huge salt ponds.

5.   It has become a model for salt ponds in other regions.

6.   Last year, it took Clinton several days to wind down and begin to treasure walks along a salt pond in search of soft-shelled clams.

7.   The future of the Cargill salt ponds has become interwined with the proposal to expand the runway system at San Francisco International Airport by further filling the bay.

8.   The giant office park rises from the San Francisco Bay salt ponds like a futuristic pod of glass and steel architecture.

9.   The salt pond dikes, Ms. Takekawa said, led the foxes straight to the rail nesting areas.

10.   The tube floats the wire basket that is tethered to me as, wearing chest waders, I rake the oysters from the bottom of a salt pond.