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The 2017 Cape Cod Natural History Conference will be held on Saturday, March 11 from 8:30
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">AM</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–3
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PM</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> at Cape Cod Community College’s Tilden Arts Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more than 20 years, Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary has organized this full-day conference featuring
presenters from environmental organizations across Cape Cod speaking on a diversity of natural history topics. The conference continues to be an engaging, exciting, and fun way to learn about local research projects, conservation efforts, and local environmental
organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><a name="eztoc242790_1"></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Among the presenters will be Jacob McCumber of the Massachusetts Army National Guard on
“Bats of Camp Edwards: Three Years of Intensive Monitoring”; and Paul Goldstein of the USDA National Museum of Natural History on “Offshore Entomology: The Dukes County Native Bee Project. Other topics include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The Successful Capture, Rehabilitation, and Release of a Manatee from Chilly Cape Cod Waters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Sounds that Fish Make<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Why Marine Animals Eat Plastics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Largest Freshwater Wetland Restoration in the Northeast</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This year’s conference also includes two student posters—one from Nauset Regional High School environmental science students on an oyster study in Wellfleet Harbor. And a group of
middle school students from Shrewsbury are contributing a poster on their inventions to reduce injury to sea turtles from fishing line.<i><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A full listing of topics and schedules can be viewed upon registration</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D">:
</span><a name="eztoc242790_2"></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/wellfleet-ccnhc">www.massaudubon.org/wellfleet-ccnhc</a>.
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The registration fee is $25 until March 4, 2017. After March 4, 2017 the registration fee is $30; walk-ins are $30. $15 for students (with student ID).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bring a brown bag lunch and to help us cut down on waste, bring a mug for coffee. Coffee and refreshments provided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Jenette Kerr<br>
Marketing and Communications Coordinator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">PO Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:jkerr@massaudubon.org"><span style="color:blue">jkerr@massaudubon.org</span></a></span><span style="color:#1F497D">
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</span><span style="color:#44546A">508-694-3611 (office)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
617-721-2847 (cell)<br>
Protecting the Nature of Massachusetts</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay"><span style="color:blue">www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay</span></a></span><span style="color:#1F497D">
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