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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Cape</SPAN></B></st1:PlaceType><B
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Friday, September 12,
</SPAN></B><st1:time Hour="9" Minute="0"><B
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">9:00am</SPAN></B></st1:time><B
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> – <SPAN
class=782303819-09092008>"</SPAN>Monitoring for Meaning<SPAN
class=782303819-09092008>"</SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">South</B></st1:PlaceName><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B><st1:PlaceType><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Cape</B></st1:PlaceType><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B><st1:PlaceType><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Beach</B></st1:PlaceType><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B><st1:PlaceType><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">State
Park</B></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> –
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>Waquoit Bay Reserve’s series of programs for their
twentieth anniversary year continues this fall with “Monitoring for Meaning” at
<st1:time Hour="9" Minute="0">9 am</st1:time>, Friday, September 12 at
<st1:place><st1:PlaceName>South</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType>Cape</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType>Beach</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> i<SPAN
class=782303819-09092008>State Park in</SPAN> Mashpee. Participants are
invited to explore the salt marsh with <st1:place>Tara</st1:place> Nye<SPAN
class=782303819-09092008>, s </SPAN>taff biologist, Association to
Preserve Cape Cod<SPAN class=782303819-09092008> and </SPAN>former Cape Cod
Water Quality Monitoring Coordinator at Waquoit Bay Reserve.
<st1:place>Tara</st1:place> will talk about why salt marshes are important.
She’ll explain tidal restriction and its impacts on salt marshes with a close
look at the salt marsh restoration recently completed at
<st1:place><st1:PlaceName>South</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType>Cape</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType>Beach</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Community members will
get the chance to examine typical salt marsh plants, fish, birds, and other
organisms as well as try out equipment used to monitor salt marshes around the
<st1:place>Cape</st1:place>.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>The walk will meet at the South Cape Beach
Bayberry Parking Lot. Walkers are encouraged to bring sunscreen, water, and
shoes that can get wet. The program is free. For more information please call
<st1:phone o_x003a_ls="trans" phonenumber="$6457$$$">508-457-0495</st1:phone>.
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Directions</B> – From the Mashpee rotary,
take <st1:Street><st1:address>Great Neck Road South</st1:address></st1:Street>
and stay to the left where it becomes <st1:Street><st1:address>Great Oak
Road</st1:address></st1:Street>. Follow this to the end where signs direct you
to turn left for beaches. Look for the Bayberry Parking Lot on the right, after
the state beach parking lot . </FONT></FONT></P>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joan C. Muller</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Education Coordinator</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>508-457-0495 x107</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Box 3092</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Waquoit, MA 02536</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:joan.muller@state.ma.us">joan.muller@state.ma.us</A></FONT></DIV>
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