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Volunteers to plant eelgrass on Essex Bay tidal flats

About 50 volunteers — including area teachers and some from Salem Sound Coastwatch — plan to plant native eelgrass on tidal flats in Essex and Gloucester and watch a demonstration of invasive green crab monitoring at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6. The events are part of the outreach being sponsored by The Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership, working with the $2.9 million federal grant received by Hurricane Sandy Resiliency Fund. “Projects like this will be happening throughout the Great Marsh over the next year and a half to help bolster the resiliency of the marsh, and naturally protect marsh communities,” said Peter Phippen of the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission/MassBays Program, members of the partnership. To volunteer or for more information, call 978-729-9067.


David Rattigan can be reached at drattigan.globe@gmail.com.

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