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Friends of Ellisville Marsh Provide a Model to Protect Shorebird Nesting Sites
Ellisville Beach is a barrier beach harboring a 71-acre salt marsh in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a few miles north of the Cape Cod Canal. Since 2007, this small beach and the adjacent Ellisville Harbor State Park beach...Read More

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View All StoriesA Watchful Eye Protects the Piping Plover
Like many other summer-time beach goers, Judy Besancon enjoys the views, smells, and feel of the ocean waters and sandy dunes. But unlike other beach goers, her mission at the beach this day is education. Read More

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Rare Bunnies Benefit from Controlled Burns in Massachusetts
The New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) loves the thickets and brush found in young forests in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine. This ...Read More
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New England Cottontail
As recently as 1960, New England cottontails were found east of the Hudson River in New York, across all of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, north to southern Vermont and New Hampshire, and into southern Maine. Today, this rabbit's range has shrunk by more than 75 percent. Its numbers are so greatly diminished that it can no longer be found in Vermont. More »
