Earth will win: Nature bites back on Washington state's Key Peninsula Natural processes overcome human impact across the beaches, forests and developed areas of a remote peninsula in southern Puget Sound.

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New plant life sprouts among decomposing madrona leaves and douglas fir needles which fill the neglected rain gutter of a Key Peninsula home. Left undisturbed, plant life will flourish, colonize the roof, and eventually cover the entire house.

Weather exploits weakness in concrete to create cracks. Opportunistic plants invade and continue the work of reducing pavement to rubble.

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Earth will win: Nature bites back on Washington state's Key Peninsula Natural processes overcome human impact across the beaches, forests and developed areas of a remote peninsula in southern Puget Sound.

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