Waquoit Bay Reserve Host’s Webinar on Sandplain Grasslands

    As part of their Research at the Reserve Series, the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, on the evening of March 9, 2023, hosted a webinar with Massachusetts State Botanist, Dr. Robert Wernerehl (above left). The webinar focuses on Sandplain Grasslands, a unique, treeless ecosystems in the Northeast. Like similar grasslands across the United States, the extent and quality of these grasslands has greatly diminished over recent decades. A few thousand acres remain in New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. This habitat is critical for endangered plant and animal species, from harriers and short-eared…

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