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Sep 09
Harvest Eelgrass, Help Save Our Bay Print E-mail
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
Eelgrass provides valuable habitat in Narragansett Bay for oysters, scallops, and all kinds of diverse critters, and we need more of it. You can help by pitching in this Thursday and Friday, Sept 11 and 12, with Save The Bay at Fort Getty, in Jamestown, where the grass is plentiful and can be harvested for transplanting elsewhere in the Bay. Divers at Fort Getty remove eelgrass from the sediment using garden trowels and fill up bags. Sorters work on shore separating sediment from eelgrass, counting shoots and sorting eelgrass into bundles. If you'd like to pitch in, show up between 9 am and 3 pm ready to work. For directions to Fort Getty, click on "More..." For more info, contact Stephany Hessler -- This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or 401.272.3540 ext. 130. To learn more about eelgrass and why it is important to the Bay, click here.

 

Directions to Fort Getty:



From the East:

Go over the Newport Bridge onto Jamestown

Take first exit after the toll

Take a right off ramp

Take a left when that road "T"s

Follow that road until the first stop sign and take a right into the
middle of town (Narragansett Ave)

Take a left at the blinking light (at the post office)

Stay on road past Mackeral Cove Beach

Take first right after beach into Ft Getty

Tell the person collecting money that you are from Save The Bay and you
should get in for free

Stay to the right as the road goes into the park and follow to the end
where you'll see a number of cars parked near the boats at a little
beach. We collect from this little beach.



From the West:

Go over the Jamestown Bridge

Take first exit on Jamestown

Take a right when the road ends in a "T"

Follow road through a blinking light, past the post office

Stay on road as it curves past Mackeral Cove Beach

Take first right after beach into Ft Getty

Tell the person collecting money that you are from Save The Bay and you
should get in for free

Stay to the right as the road goes into the park and follow to the end
where you'll see a number of cars parked near the boats at a little
beach. We collect from this little beach.
 

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