AMWS Coastal Vernal Pools
Title: AMWS Coastal Vernal Pools
Location: Castle Neck, Ipswich MA
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Description: The workshop covers a type of vernal pool that is rarely studied: vernal pools in interdunal swales and cranberry bogs. This specialized vernal pool habitat supports Spadefoot toads as the amphibian component, and there are some unmapped and possibly unclassified soils here as well. The invertebrates in these high energy, no shade environments are amazing creatures, and as ephemeral as their home. Coastal vernal pools are regularly filled and relocated by drifting sand–thus ephemeral, not only on an annual cycle, but catastrophically. CEUs available.
Limited to 8 participants. Cost: $65 member; $125 non-member.
This workshop makes a fine companion to the previously held Coastal Resources offering at Crane’s Beach. Sign up for both at the same time and take $5 off each workshop. CEUs available.
Start Time: 08:30
Date: 2010-04-23
End Time: 13:00
