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Articles by Lauri Munroe-Hultman

Muskrats are key to Poplar Island restoration

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By Lauri Munroe-Hultman
| Bay to Bay News Verified
By Lauri Munroe-Hultman POPLAR ISLAND — In the Chesapeake Bay, the muskrat is a valuable partner in an ambitious project to restore a remote island under siege. It’s helping turn sediment scooped from Baltimore shipping channels into healthy salt marsh habitat. Poplar Island was one or two strong storms from going the way of more than 400 Chesapeake Bay remote islands in as many years.
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Giving bunnies a boost: Students further cottontail conservation

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By Lauri Munroe-Hultman, Darci Palmquist
| Medium
Students at Bristol County Agricultural High School are used to an out-of-the-ordinary educational experience. After all, “Bristol Aggie” offers programs in floriculture, animal science, and agricultural mechanics. The latest addition to its natural resource management curriculum, however, is rare indeed. Bristol Aggie is the newest member of a partnership led by the Eastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge Complex to save the New England cottontail, the only rabbit native to the region.
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The Recorder - Finding biodiversity in the backyard

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By Lauri Munroe-Hultman
| Greenfield Recorder Verified
Plants make great subjects for learning about biodiversity — the variety of living things. Biologists use biodiversity to measure the health of ecosystems, biological communities and habitats. Ecosystems with more biodiversity are healthier and stronger. A big reason for this is resistance to disease. In a less diverse habitat, a species-specific disease could wipe out a large portion of life, while in a more diverse habitat, many other species would survive.
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Reaching new heights

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By Lauri Munroe-Hultman
| Medium
Last spring, there was a lot of heavy lifting at the Essex Dam, but no one seemed to mind. In fact, they were thrilled. For more than 30 years, migratory fish have passed over the dam on the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts, by riding in large buckets on a chain-driven fish lift. Last spring, they showed up in record numbers, with nearly 450,000 river herring — that’s blueback herring and alewife — hoisted up and over to continue their journey upstream.
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