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	Natimuk-Douglas Wetland Management Plan
		The larger salt pans include Olivers Lake, Lake Wyn Wyn and Mitre Lake in the north, and White Lake, Centre Lake and North Lake near Douglas.
		The salt pans are a unique feature in the landscape due to their distinctive flora and fauna.
		The salt pans are surrounded by salt tolerant vegetation, including samphire flats (halophytic shrublands) and closed Salt Paperbark forests.
	www.birdsaustralia.com.au /projects/natimuk.html (471 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Salt pans
		A salt pan would be a lake or a pond if it was in a location in a climate where the rate of water evaporation wasn't faster than the rate of water precipitation, i.e., if it wasn't in a desert.
		The two best-known salt pans in the USA are probably the one where Burning Man Festival is held, and the Salt Lake Desert, a vast flat plain where many land speed records have been set.
		Salt taxes were one of the complaints leading to toppling China's Imperial government in the early 20th Century and remain important in China today (as well as an inducement to salt smuggling).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Salt-pans (428 words)

	Early Salt Ponds on Duck Key in the Florida Keys
		Salt is an essential element because, although it is necessary for both the human and animal diet, the human body does not have the ability to produce salt on its own.
		In the Middle Ages salt was such as precious commodity that one's status was denoted by his position at the dining table in relation to the location of the salt.
		This exquisite salt is hand-harvested from marine salt beds in the lush Mediterranean marshes in the South of France.
	www.duckkeyonline.com /duck_key_history/duck_key_salt_ponds.htm (1529 words)

	History of Salt
		Salt taxes were one of the complaints leading to toppling China's Imperial government in the early 20th Century and remain important in China today (as well as an inducement to salt smuggling).
		French kings developed a salt monopoly by selling exclusive rights to produce it to a favored few who exploited that right to the point where the scarcity of salt, and the gabelle, the salt tax (1 2 3 4 5), was a major contributing cause of the French Revolution.
		Salt was produced between 1790 and 1860 in Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri by boiling brine in salt furnaces.
	www.saltinstitute.org /38.html (3225 words)

	Sea Salt
		Such pans, which once produced salt for export all over the world, are dotted throughout the island and are now silent reminders of former days and the ever--changing fortunes of economics.
		One of the most recent salt pans to dissolve into history was at Matagorda on the road leading to the airport, just to the north of Puerto del Carmen.
		Salt was once so important to the islanders that it played, and still does play, a major role in the May festival of Corpus Christi on Lanzarote.
	www.lanzarote-guide.com /gui-eng/seasalt.htm (768 words)

	Nacionalno Turistično Združenje - National Tourist Association [Sečovlje, Salt Pans]
		On the area of the old, abandoned salt pans, there is Salt Pans Museum, in which we can admire the gradual development of the salt pans, as well as the way of life of the salt workers during the centuries up to the present date.
		The Sečovlje salt pans are today the largest coastal marsh wetlands (517 hectares), and at the same time the most important Slovenian locality from the ornithological point of view.
		On the basis of these facts, the salt pans of Sečovlje, were at first proclaimed as the nature park (in the year 1989) comprising four nature reserves, and later as the sole Slovenian Ramsar locality (in the year 1993).
	www.ntz-nta.si /content.asp?id=3775 (285 words)

	Solar Salt Pans
		Salt was valuable to the Dutch as a means of preserving herring, an important livelihood.
		Salt pan work was considered some of the toughest possible not only because of the work involved, but the constant bright glare from the crystals was hard on the eyes.
		Most of the salt is exported to the United States for industrial use, including water softening and sprinkling on snow-covered roads.
	www.guidetocaribbeanvacations.com /bonaire/SaltPans.htm (332 words)

	The Salt Manufacturers Association ::: saltsense, salt history, salt manufacture, salt uses, sodium. Key information on ...
		Visitors to Cheshire salt towns in the 16th century observed that brine was distributed to each salt house along a system of overhead wooden channels and it is natural to assume that there must have been a method of metering this flow of brine.
		Riveted wrought iron pans on the other hand were expensive to fabricate, corroded by the brine and rust could discolour the salt.
		At the traditional salt ports of Southern England trade continued and salt making was expanded by the import and re-crystallisation of the grey Bay Salt by the "salt on salt" process.
	www.saltsense.co.uk /history08.htm (1308 words)

	Makgadikgadi Salt Pans
		Almost the size of Portugal, the pan covers 12 000 square kilometers and is the largest saltpan in the world.
		The pan is only a portion of what used to be one of the largest inland lakes in Africa.
		Although these rains are short lived, in December another deluge turns the edges of the vast pans into waving fringes of green grassland where herds of wildlife converge to partake in the bounty.
	www.bushways.com /makg.html (306 words)

	MAREA s.p. - History
		The flisch structure of the soil of the North Adriatic and the configuration with perpendicular affluents allowed for the formation of shallows, that were turned into salt pans through the centuries.
		The Romans were supposedly the first producers of salt; while the salt pans of Secovlje were the biggest in the North Adriatic area.
		From the 14th century on, the Piran and Koper salt pans was rated as an important merchandize.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/mareaslo/hist.html (738 words)

	SECOVLJE SALT-PANS LANDSCAPE PARK
		The first written records concerning the Piran pans, for which it is not known when they actually began to spring up, date to the second half of the 13th century from the Piran statute.
		The salt fields consists of basins of different evaporation grades and crystallization basins, where salt is harvested during the summer.
		The area of the pans wirhin the park was due to its exceptional cultural tradition, which includes architectural, technical, technological, ethnological and language heritage, further decreed and ethnological and technical monument, while the four smaller salt-pans areas - the so-called Ob rudniku, Stare soline, Stojbe and Curto-Pichetto - were given the status of nature reserves.
	dragonja.nib.si /Secovlje/index.html (1583 words)

	Bo'ness - Saltpans and salt manufacture
		During the 16th and 17th Centuries both sides of the Forth were dotted with salt pans the product of which was mainly for export to the extent that on the 13th October 1573 the lieges complained to the Council, which prohibited the export of salt for three years.
		Salt production was still a major industry in Grangepans, but it was said that the seawater was "too fresh" and rock salt, imported from Liverpool and Carrickfergus, was added to strengthen the Grange salt: previously 100 tons of water would only yield 3 tons of salt.
		Salt however was still produced on the Forth, as non-edible salt, at Prestonpans into the 1950's.
	www.bo-ness.org.uk /html/history/saltpans.htm (736 words)

	Waitrose.com - Maldon Salt - Waitrose Food Illustrated
		There were 45 salt pans recorded in Essex in the Domesday Book; the fires burning through the night served as a guide for sailors.
		The salt is raked to the sides of the pan ('drawing the pan') first thing every morning, left to drain in tubs, then stored in vast, snowy piles.
		The lifting of the salt tax in Britain in 1825 resulted in a rapid expansion of the industry in Cheshire, where salt is mined, and this put many of the country's manufacturers out of business.
	www.waitrose.com /food_drink/wfi/ingredients/herbsspicesseasoningsandcondiments/9905100.asp (1425 words)

	Salt, Paper and Dignity
		When people add salt to their food, most never connect the seasoning to a woman in the Indian desert, struggling to survive in the harshest conditions imaginable, or to her children who have never set foot in a school.
		She is a 35-year-old salt pan worker, a wife and mother of six children.
		Her three salt pans — each half the size of an Olympic swimming pool — are made by stamping the ground and building a two-foot barrier around the edges.
	www.care.org /newsroom/articles/2006/03/20060329_meg_ryan_salt.asp (1517 words)

	Industries of Cumbria - Salt
		Salt making in the southern part of the coast was not carried on to the same extent was it was in the North and West.
		The pans were small and made of lead or iron, though perhaps lead was more common in the early days as it was easier to get and fabricate.
		The salt content of the water varied according to the weather, which the old pans of South Cumbria (and likely in the North) endeavoured to overcome by producing a concentrated brine by "sleeching".
	www.cumbria-industries.org.uk /salt.htm (1537 words)

	Seaton Sluice & Old Hartley Local History Society: Salt Pans
		Salt was produced at the mouth of the Seaton Burn as far back as 1236; sea water was evaporated in huge pans, heated by coal fires.
		At this time, the salt was dried and then carried in wains to Blyth to be transported to other parts of the country, and it wasn't until 1550 that salt was shipped from Hartley Haven.
		Salt continued to be manufactured for a few more years, but this was all used in the Glass Houses.
	www.seaton-sluice.co.uk /content/salt.html (454 words)

	Tourism and tourist places in Trapani: the Nature Reserve of Salt Pans
		The Salt Pans' origins go back to the Phoenicians who realized that geographic and climatic conditions of this area were very favourable so they installed some basins where sea waters come into and from where it extracts salt.
		Later under Federico II the of Salt Pans became very important since he mentioned them in the Costituzioni of Menfi (Menfi Costitutions) and made it property of the crown.
		In two particular periods of the year salt producted is amassed forming huts along the whole perimeter round the of Salt Pans which are covered by tiles toprotect them from the sun and from the wind.
	sicilia.indettaglio.it /eng/comuni/tp/trapani/turismo/turismo.html (349 words)

	Salt Industry
		The Salt Industry began with seasonal salt rakers coming to the Islands from Bermuda in the late 1600s and lasted until commercial exploitation of the salinas ended in the 1960s.
		There the whites were left on their own to rake salt, living in rough huts, while the ship master and fl crew cruised for turtles or recent wrecks visible in the clear waters.
		Maintaining salt imports was vital to the success of the American Revolution, and the United States was dependent upon salt imports to some degree until almost the end of the 19th century.
	www.tcmuseum.org /salt_industry (1442 words)

	Salt News
		Unpolluted salt water collected from the Seto-uchi Inland Sea is left in a large pool to stand for a while, evaporating some of the water and saturating the salt solution.
		Despite its parching reputation, salt is an excellent conversational (and literary) lubricant, and the popular food blog "An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink" columnist La Cuisine Bonne Femme has awed and humbled us with her story, which beatifully captures the suprise, intrigue, and excitement we find in the diverse finishing salts of the world.
		Homer’s many mentions of salt include several that intimate a roiling conflict with his mother, and it is back to her tears, the salty amniotic bath before birth, and back to the sea in which he lives that he continually is drawn.
	www.saltnews.com (3975 words)

	DolceVita Itineraries: Trapani Salt Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saline are the salt-pans where sea salt is obtained through the evaporation of sea water.
		Here, the ocean is still an essential part of daily life which centers around tuna fishing, coral harvesting and the recovery of salt, a precious commodity prized today as it was in antiquity.
		Large, slow windmills are used as the energy source in the completely environment-safe workcycle of salt harvesting, not so much a concession to modern-time concerns, as simply the way things have always been done on these salt-pans.
	www.dolcevita.com /travel/summerwh/trap.htm (232 words)

	German Salt Museum: Permanent Exhibitions 14 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The pan is provided with wooden surroundings and a wooden roof with a steam hood in the middle of the top.
		The brine was heated in the lower pan by oil firing.
		In the boiling pan there is the "Raker" ("rake"), a sort of rack with shovel blades moved by chain drive.
	members.aol.com /saltmuseum/ausst14.htm (176 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Tuz Gölü (Salt lake)
		Salt makes up 3.5 percent of the human body, which is extraordinary testimony to the balance of nature, because the proportion of salt in the world’s seas is also 3.5 percent!
		Saturated salt water is allowed to pour into the Kaldırım, Kayacık and Yavşan salt pans, and when the salt has precipitated the water is drained off again.
		Known as salt jars, they are made of clay mixed with salt, The high level of evaporation which results causes the jars to act like refrigerators, and water kept in them remains cold in the hottest weather.
	www.atamanhotel.com /tuzgolu.html (888 words)

	Desert dreams: seeking the secret mammals of the salt pans - Naturalist At Large Natural History - Find Articles
		In other areas, where arid mountains surrounded enclosed basins, salts weathered from the uplands by seasonal precipitation were carried with the runoff into the valley below; again, when the water evaporated, the salts remained.
		The salt concentrations in the stems and leaves of these plants are many times what they are in seawater; the salts keep precious fluids in the plants' cells from being drawn by osmotic pressure into the salty soil.
		All the species are rodents that have evolved highly specialized features to overcome the challenge of surviving on the salt-filled vegetation of the salt pans.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_112/ai_110737005 (1077 words)

	Colloidal minerals Dr Joel Wallach
		Salt and salt rich clays were the first mineral food supplement consciously used by man, most probably since the dawn of time.
		Salt was produced in shallow ponds of sea water through evaporation and by mining rock salt from large land locked deposits.
		Salt was also an important force in the African slave trade as captured children from warring tribes were sold into slavery in exchange for salt.
	www.elementsofhealth.com /salt.html (527 words)

	The Museum of Salt-Making
		The salt-maker's dwelling is comprised of three buildings: a two-storied house, where the family lived on the 1st floor and stored the salt on the ground-floor, and a reconstructed bakery, the curiosity of the Secovlje salt-works.
		The salt works of Piran were very important to the social, economic and cultural life on the coast.
		The salt is harvested in the salt-pans belonging to the museum.
	www2.arnes.si /~kppomorskim2/english/salt_pan.htm (478 words)

	The Role of Salt in Eastern North American Prehistory
		The salt springs of western Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana were well-known to the eighteenth century Indians, and many groups frequented these areas to produce and trade salt.
		Although salt was in deed extracted from salt-impregnated sand and from the ashes of certain salt plants, it was most commonly produced at brine springs.
		It is probable that the idea of salt pans diffused as the different populations recognized the value of the large vessels and learned the techniques involved in making them.
	www.crt.state.la.us /archaeology/salt/hist.htm (1614 words)

	Lusoponte
		The expropriation of the Samouco Salt Pans Complex and the first renovation phase of the salt pans were to be carried out not by the Portuguese State but by Lusoponte, the concessionaire of the Vasco da Gama bridge.
		The first renovation phase of the salt pans resulted in the fencing off of the expropriated area, the renovation of 42 sluice gates, the cleaning of the gillnets, ditches, paths and wells, the renovation of a number of buildings, namely the centre of Pinheirinhos.
		The priorities of the Foundation's short term plan of activities are to maintain and to increase the bird fauna communities, to promote the sustainable use of natural resources, to disseminate and raise awareness on the conservation of nature, especially concerning the salt pans and to promote the technical and scientific research of wetlands.
	www.lusoponte.pt /uk/amb_fundacaosamouco.htm (352 words)

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