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 Welcome to the Friends of Ellisville Marsh, Inc.! We are a community-based organization formed to revitalize an environmental gem – the historic Ellisville Marsh. Our members share a special affinity for this timeless place. Some of our families have connections to the marsh that go back for generations, to times when the marsh was the center of the Ellisville community and a thriving habitat for a wide spectrum of bird and wildlife species, fish and plant life. Fishing and agriculture in Ellisville Marsh necessitated the hard work of maintaining the channel to the sea, which brought cleansing tides and fish. As recently as 1985 (see photo) vegetation covered the entire marsh, suggesting a healthy balance of environmental conditions.
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Boston Globe
By Renee Loth, September 18, 2009 The windswept dunes and open sandbars at Crane Beach in Ipswich can seem desolate even in summer, a hostile “edge’’ environment that creates extreme conditions for native plants and animals - not to mention the fair-skinned Northern needus Coppertonus. But people enjoying the parched shoreline on a recent Full Article |
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Old Colony Memorial Emily Wilcox, GateHouse News Service - June 24, 2009
ELLISVILLE — Mired in red tape, the Friends of Ellisville Marsh have not given up the fight to reopen the channel to save the historic marsh and resurrect the fish and other wildlife populations there. “The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management – they have challenged the basic premise the Friends hold dear, that is that this is a working salt marsh and Full Article |
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