Yellow flowers brighten the greenscape around Kennedy Space Center, which shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Approximately one-half of the refuges 140,000 acres consists of brackish estuaries and marshes. The remaining lands consist of coastal dunes, scrub oaks, pine forests and flatwoods, and palm and oak hammocks.
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Kennedy Space Center
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NASA
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Yellow flowers brighten the greenscape around Kennedy Space Center, which shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Approximately one-half of the refuges 140,000 acres consists of brackish estuaries and marshes. The remaining lands consist of coastal dunes, scrub oaks, pine forests and flatwoods, and palm and oak hammocks.