In 2004 the management of Guana River State Park, located on Florida's First Coast was turned over to the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR), the 25th National Estuarine Research Reserve in the United States. The pResearch Reserve is located along State Highway A1A, between St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Located in St. Johns County, the Research Reserve is a federal/state partnership with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as the state program administrator and NOAA on the federal side.
Within its +60,000 acres (240 km2) are beaches, sand dunes, salt marshes, mangroves, tidal wetlands, tidal creeks, oyster beds, estuarine lagoons, maritime hardwood hammock, freshwater depression marshes, pond pine flatwoods and shell mound forests.
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