[SEMCO] Salt Marsh program at South Cape Beach on Friday

[Muller, Joan (DCR)]

South Cape Beach Walk Features Plants, Animals and Measurements of the
Marsh

Friday, September 12, 9:00am - "Monitoring for Meaning"

 

South Cape Beach State Park - 

 

Waquoit Bay Reserve's series of programs for their twentieth anniversary
year continues this fall with "Monitoring for Meaning" at 9 am, Friday,
September 12 at South Cape Beach iState Park in Mashpee. Participants
are invited to explore the salt marsh with Tara Nye, s  taff biologist,
Association to Preserve Cape Cod and former Cape Cod Water Quality
Monitoring Coordinator at Waquoit Bay Reserve. Tara 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 South Cape Beach.  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 Cape.

 

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 508-457-0495. 

 

Directions - From the Mashpee rotary, take Great Neck Road South and
stay to the left where it becomes Great Oak Road. 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 . 

 

 
Joan C. Muller
Education Coordinator
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
508-457-0495 x107
Box 3092
Waquoit, MA 02536
joan.muller at state.ma.us
 
 
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