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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program (NEP) is looking for input as it evaluates how climate change impacts our collective ability to protect and restore water quality and living resources in our area. The 2013 Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) defines goals and approaches to protect and restore water quality and living resources in Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed. It will be updated in 2023, and as part of the CCMP update, the NEP must undertake a Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment to determine how climate drivers might affect our collective ability to meet the CCMP goals and objectives.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You can provide input in four different ways:</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Complete a questionnaire on your broad concerns related to climate change and how affected each of the Buzzards Bay CCMP Action Plans will be by climate change: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2wytyb8w">https://tinyurl.com/2wytyb8w</a> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Participate in a workshop where we discuss how climate drivers might affect our collective ability to meet the goals and objectives in the Buzzards Bay CCMP: </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Regional and Municipal Government Workshop – Thursday, March 3, 2022 from 10:00am – 11:30am </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Non-Profits and the Public Workshop – Tuesday, April 19, 2022 from 4:30pm – 6:00pm</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To register for either of these workshops, please click this link: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p85tftn">https://tinyurl.com/2p85tftn</a> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rate the climate stressors for one or more Action Plans from the Buzzards Bay CCMP that reflect your interests or expertise. To view and rate the climate stressors identified in the draft Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and submit additional climate stressors or research needed, follow the links at the bottom of this page: <a href="https://buzzardsbay.org/management-solutions/2022-climate-vulnerability-assessment/">https://buzzardsbay.org/management-solutions/2022-climate-vulnerability-assessment/</a></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Review the draft Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment document and send a comment letter on one or more CCMP Action Plans that reflect your interests or expertise. Draft document available here: <a href="https://buzzardsbay.org/management-solutions/2022-climate-vulnerability-assessment/">https://buzzardsbay.org/management-solutions/2022-climate-vulnerability-assessment/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you in advance for your feedback!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Rachel Wisniewski Jakuba, PhD, </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Vice President for Bay Science</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6799c8">BUZZARDS BAY </span></b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6799c8">COALITION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#566d11">Main - 114 Front Street, New Bedford, MA 02740</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#566d11">Tel – 508-999-6363 x229 (New Bedford) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#566d11"> 508-999-6363 x263 (Woods Hole)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6799c8"><a href="http://www.savebuzzardsbay.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6799c8">www.savebuzzardsbay.org</span></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>