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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 15<sup>th</sup> annual State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference will be held this Saturday, November 4 from 8:30
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</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PM</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> at the Wellfleet Elementary School at 100 Lawrence Road. The event is free and open to all.<br>
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Appropriately, this year’s conference has a water theme—protecting and improving local waterways, the threat of rising seawater as the climate warms, and what’s being learned to anticipate and respond to dolphin strandings. Among this year’s presentations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">Sea Level is Rising and Wellfleet Harbor is Sinking: What Will the Future Look Like?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">The Who, What, When, Where, and Why of Horseshoe Crabs in Wellfleet Harbor: A Three-Year Study<br>
Herring River Restoration Can Open Closed Shellfish Beds: The Seawater Solution<br>
Acoustic Cues Associated with Cetacean Mass Stranding Events<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cetacean Strandings on Cape Cod: An Overview of Occurrence and Techniques</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333">For the event schedule and full details go to massaudubon.org/wellfleet-harbor-conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sponsors of this year’s State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference include Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, Mid Cape Home Centers, the Town of Wellfleet, the Wellfleet Conservation
Trust, Friends of the Herring River, and Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Food donations are being made by Mac’s Seafood, the Wellfleet Box Lunch, Wellfleet Marketplace, The Wicked Oyster, and PB Boulangerie.<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">508-349-2615, ex. 6111 (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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