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The Broads Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Much of the Broad is only about 1.2 m deep, but despite this, it forms one of the most popular sites in the region, being visited by large numbers of holiday cruisers (which because of their deeper draught have to keep to the central, marked channel) as well as smaller vessels. |
 | | Hickling Broad and its surrounding fens and marshes has long been renowned for the richness and variety of its bird and plant life, and is part owned, and part leased by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. |
 | | The Team also noted that..."the (Hickling) broad ecosystem will probably continue to change towards a lower nutrient, more botanically diverse state, albeit slowly", and it forecast that the clear water conditions which had, to the delight of conservationists, developed in the Broad during the summer of 1999 were likely to be repeated in subsequent years. |
| www.broads-society.org.uk /waterweed.html (925 words) |
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