. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. COASTAL TIDINGS. A Forest for the New Millennium Around the Network: New Marine Mammal Guide Whal es. Dolphins. Seals. Loggerhead turtles. These sea creatures have long fascinated kids of all ages. Now Rhode Island Sea Grant has a new Guide to Marine Mammals and Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to help you identify 45 species. The guidebook, written by Kate Wynne and Malia Schwartz, has full-color illustrations and photos, as well as distribution maps. Single copies of the guidebook are $25.
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. COASTAL TIDINGS. A Forest for the New Millennium Around the Network: New Marine Mammal Guide Whal es. Dolphins. Seals. Loggerhead turtles. These sea creatures have long fascinated kids of all ages. Now Rhode Island Sea Grant has a new Guide to Marine Mammals and Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to help you identify 45 species. The guidebook, written by Kate Wynne and Malia Schwartz, has full-color illustrations and photos, as well as distribution maps. Single copies of the guidebook are $25. Make your check or money order payable to Rhode Island Sea Grant/URI and mail it to Rhode Island Sea Grant, Communications Office, URI Bay Campus, Narragansett, Rl 02882. Discounts are available on larger quantities. - HOLIDAY 1999 If a tree falls in the forest with no one to hear, does it make a sound? The Zen riddle may be unanswerable, but as Pocosin Arts knows, trees being felled in the forest can definitely make an impact. For centuries, the Atlantic white cedar — a juniper valued for its straight, lightweight and resilient wood — was heavily harvested for use in shingles, house trim, channel markers and boats. Now the globally endangered cedar's plight is being heard. On the first day of spring, schoolchildren will be planting 7,000 Atlantic white cedars on a 7-acre tract of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge south of Columbia in Tyrrell County. A unique clay marker will be planted with each tree to share this moment in history with future genera- tions. The resulting woodland will be a demonstration forest for environmental education. The planting of the millennium forest is a fulfillment of the vision of Pocosin Arts, a nonprofit organization "connecting culture to the environment through the ; A pocosin is an upland south- eastern swamp where Atlantic white cedar forests once filled an important role, stabilizing streamflows, purifying
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