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PRESS RELEASE<br>
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<br>
August 18,
2016
Teresa Izzo<br>
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<div align="center"><b>SHARK-TEMBER<br>
at<br>
The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
<i>presents<br>
Muskeget Island, Gray Seal Maternity Ward; No White Sharks
Apply<br>
with<br>
Author Crocker Snow, Jr.<br>
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BREWSTER, MA The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents
<i>Muskeget Island, Gray Seal Maternity Ward </i>with author Crocker
Snow, Jr. <b>Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 1pm. <i> <br>
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Muskeget Island, the smallest of Nantucket’s three islands, is a
treeless, uninhabited, 250-acre island halfway between Nantucket and
Martha's Vineyard and has become the primary maternity ward of gray seals
in Nantucket and Cape Cod waters. In the past 20 years, this tiny island
has undergone an ecological dynamic change caused by the overpopulation
of gray seals that has grown from 100 in 1996 to about 10,000 today,
where in the dead of winter, gray seals birth and breed. The impact of
these large and voracious seals on the island's fragile ecosystem, its
terrain and other special wildlife, is a source of amazement and concern
to scientists and researchers.<br>
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Crocker Snow Jr. has been going to Muskeget Island for 65 years, and is
now part owner and effectively the steward of what is a National Natural
Landmark with the Department of Interior. Author of a recent book
<i>Muskeget: Raw. Restless, Relentless Island</i> and narrator of a new
documentary about the seals on Muskeget, award-winning journalist Crocker
Snow will share his years of unique observation and experience of trying
to keep the island "forever wild". <br>
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<b>Free with Museum Admission<br>
</b>For more information please call: 508-896-3867, ext. 133<br>
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Teresa Izzo<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
869 Main St./Rte. 6A<br>
Brewster, MA 02631<br>
508-896-3867 x137<br>
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