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Real estate the moon repossesses twice a day.
means The coastal zone between high and low tide, periodically submerged and exposed by the sea.
from Plain English compound of tide and land, surfacing in the 1800s, then weaponized in mid-1900s America when oil under tidelands sparked epic state-versus-federal turf wars.
Legal limboOften public-owned, even where private beaches abut.
Oil fight1953 Submerged Lands Act handed states the goods.
Living edgeTidelands feed estuaries hosting most marine nurseries.